Within days, the lockdown had expanded to cover several other cities comprising 60 million people. Private vehicles were were banned from city streets. Schools, offices and factories were shut down. 23, authorities cut all transport into and out of Wuhan, a central Chinese city of 11 million people where the virus is believed to have originated, and ordered people to stay home unless they needed to buy groceries or seek medical care. mimic, at least partially, some of the tough decisions China took in its battle against the coronavirus. The measures implemented in Italy and under consideration the U.S. How China locked down tens of millions of people РІР‚СљThe disregard for civil liberties and human rights that the government has demonstrated in its quarantine and censorship activities are inseparable from the policies and actions of the government that contributed to the outbreak in the first place.РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљNo other nation (western or otherwise) can or should seek to replicate ChinaРІР‚в„ўs actions,РІР‚Сњ Thomas Bollyky, the director of the Global Health Program at the Washington D.C.-based Council on Foreign Relations, tells TIME via email. Now, as the rest of the world faces a growing pandemic, policy makers are eyeing the Chinese model to determine what worked-and whether the most aggressive measures are feasible, or even desirable. Andrew Cuomo has ordered a РІР‚Сљcontainment zoneРІР‚Сњ in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, where all public gathering places are closed and the National Guard has been deployed to help deliver food and sterilize public areas.Р”В«ut others question the cost of ChinaРІР‚в„ўs containment, and are asking if itРІР‚в„ўs worth turning to draconian measures that indiscriminately infringe on citizensРІР‚в„ў civil liberties and cripple their livelihoods. And officials elsewhere are already attempting similar measures-the whole of Italy has been placed under lockdown, and on Thursday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that all land, sea and air transport in and out of the Manila metropolitan area, home to 13 million people, will be cut until mid-April.

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