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Senin, 30 Maret 2020 21:04:00

CUHK Business School Research Shows Wuhan Lockdown Significantly Cut COVID-19 Infections

HONG KONG, - 30 March 2020 - To combat the spread of COVID-19, the Chinese government imposed an unprecedented and controversial lockdown on Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, starting on the morning of January 23, and then in other Hubei cities several days later.

Under the order issued by the government, all public transport, including buses, trains, flights and ferry services, were suspended. Residents of Wuhan were also not allowed to leave the city without permission.

This lockdown, which is only being relaxed two months on as the number of new infections in China has tailed off, is being emulated by a growing number of governments from the U.K, Italy and Spain to the Philippines as infections have spread across the globe, with over 360,000 people infected and over 16,000 dead.

A new study has further strengthened the case that COVID-19 cases in China would have been significantly higher had the government not enacted the historic lockdown on the city of Wuhan in the early days of the outbreak.

Conducted by Yang Yang, Assistant Professor of School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School in collaboration with Prof. Hanming Fang at the University of Pennsylvania and Prof. Long Wang of ShanghaiTech University, the study sought to quantify and isolate the effect of restricting travel on the spread of the virus. (*).