The coronavirus pandemic is reaching a peak in Europe, with huge areas of the continent under lockdown. There had been signs of hope that numbers of new COVID-19 infection were declining in areas such as China and South Korea, where the disease first emerged.
But now the governments of South Korea, Taiwan, and some parts of China are being forced to renew their virus containment measures.
A small but worrying increase in new cases has been reported after weeks of declines. “What many people hadn’t recognised is that it is only a temporary success, it is not a permanent success,” Ben Cowling, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Hong Kong, told the Financial Times.
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