Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[haxxiy]

SvennoJ said:

haxxiy said:

China had literally 1 non-imported case today. It can be done.

But how exactly are they now managing it. Is life back to normal? Does everyone get tested that gets into the country? Is social distancing still in effect?

Going back to normal means imported cases slip through again and the cycle starts over. There are indications that you can already pass it on before showing symptoms yourself, you would need to test everyone or make everyone self isolate when entering the country, or indeed get the whole world on lock down for a month to make sure it dies out. The previous system to isolate when symptoms show up and trace contacts got us into the current mess.

I'm just a bit worried about people thinking it's all over when numbers start declining and then go back to globe trotting as usual.

Anyway it will be a while until that happens, so far the world wide growth in daily cases is still continuing despite some countries having put a pause on testing probable cases that are self isolated already. As well as not having enough capacity to test like here in Ontario

From what I've seen, quarantine should to be completely lifted in Hubei within the next two or three weeks (it already is, in a few cities), and most people elsewhere are going back to normal with a lot of carefulness, like in South Korea (masks etc.). People entering the country are being quarantined, not sure if they're necessarily being tested if otherwise healthy at the end of the fourteen days.

And yeah, international transmission, specially come the next winter, will probably be the main concern once the main outbreaks in the EU and US and elsewhere are through. Restrictions to travel and closed borders will likely linger for quite a while. And that's for the best, really. Everyone likes to travel but everyone dislikes (excess) tourists.