{"id":16329,"date":"2020-03-25T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/china-shows-way-to-ease-lockdowns-before-vaccine-ready-suggests-report-imperial-college"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:01:05","slug":"china-shows-way-to-ease-lockdowns-before-vaccine-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16329","title":{"rendered":"China shows way to ease lockdowns before vaccine, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK experts say easing physical distancing would depend on rigorous testing and isolation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s tough lockdown and physical distancing measures in Wuhan and other provinces appear to have successfully ended new locally-transmitted coronavirus infections and may chart a route back to normal life, according to a report from Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis\/news--wuhan-coronavirus\/\"> report<\/a>, from Prof Neil Ferguson and his team, who have been the main modellers of the epidemic for the UK and other governments, suggests that it is possible to lift the physical distancing restrictions, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/wuhan-eases-coronavirus-lockdown-as-restrictions-intensify-outside-china\">China has begun to do<\/a>, without a resurgence of the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/china-shows-way-to-ease-lockdowns-before-vaccine-ready-suggests-report-imperial-college\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK experts say easing physical distancing would depend on rigorous testing and isolationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina\u2019s tough lockdown and physical distancing measures in Wuhan and other provinces appear to have succ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1069,862,1278,914,1279,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-higher-education","category-imperial-college-london","category-infectious-diseases","category-research","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16330,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329\/revisions\/16330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}