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channel 4 news from beginning to end all
76 days of it that going to make sure
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few short weeks ago a population reduced
to hermit status and deserted cities
still seemed alien to the UK and then we
too became
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there are some parallels with our
experience the supermarket packed with
panic shoppers on day three of the
lockdown and just like here the
authorities in Wuhan clocked the lack of
social distancing and the continuing
movement of people so they decided to
act one month in and the lockdown in
Wuhan became locked in homes were cut
off
forget Accardo here food surprise were
delivered and distributed like rations
by volunteers organized within housing
estates a homemaker Jimmy and Paddy BOGO
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in Los Angeles and Ian around Seussical
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whole luchon 13 ha may also much go up
by now jinan had started work as a
community volunteer her job to take the
temperature everyone in her apartment
complex those with high temperatures
were given a red status and immediately
quarantine
then sent to outside hospitals for
further testing and treatment
all this personal health data is access
to the popular WeChat social media app
used by over a billion Chinese and
everything on WeChat is also seen by the
government in real-time highly intrusive
real-time tracking of a largely
compliant population that was the key to
the eventual lifting of the lockdown in
Wuhan after 76 days the lockdown was
finally over with her health stood as
green on her phone
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post lockdown Wuhan is in many ways
stricter than the UK in our existing
lockdown the smartphone and the
obligatory WeChat app is the people's
passport to normality or a degree of it
fail a temperature test get a read
status and you're back in personal
lockdown and immediately recall anteed
restaurants shopping our schools and
colleges all remain shut and all public
exercise is still forbidden in reality
post lockdown life here has a long way
to go before it gets back to normal
well earlier today I spoke to dr. Keiji
Fukuda in Hong Kong he worked for the
World Health Organization as assistant
director-general of health security and
I asked him where he thinks we are now
with this outbreak globally well I think
that we're still at the early stages of
this outbreak unfolding you know we'd
all like to think that we're getting
close to the middle or close to the end
but I think that you know we're just
beginning to see activity increase in
Africa and we have seen high levels that
activity occur in places like North
America and the US and I think the
likelihood is that even in countries
which have experienced significant
activity we're going to continue to see
waves of activity as we go forward what
do you make of the increase in the
Chinese numbers I mean are these sorts
of increases with time inevitable or has
there been some funny business going on
no I think that it's inevitable that our
understanding of the number of deaths is
going to increase you know so for
example in New York City we saw that the
number of deaths increased because they
said lots of people never made it to the
hospital or they died in emergency rooms
before they could be seen and similarly
the
Chinese have added a large number of
debt in Wuhan but going forward even
further it's inevitable when we look
back to this period and use other means
like estimating excess deaths that we're
going to find out in fact the number of
deaths is much greater than we are
counting right now if we are still in
the early stages of this disease I mean
is it is it simply too soon to be
talking about trying to return to some
sort of normality I don't think it's too
early to be talking about it and in some
instances acting upon it you know we
can't wait until the outbreak fully
disappears but on the other hand I do
think that it's incumbent upon
governments not to paint a picture which
is not really based in reality for the
people living in those countries and to
make it simple seem as if it's a simple
matter of simply deciding that there is
a date by which you're going to open up
the economy so the idea of Donald Trump
basically saying America needs to get
back to work and we'll do it in phases
it's just unrealistic well I think it's
realistic to say that America has to get
back to work because every country wants
to get back to work you know it doesn't
make sense to go back to normal levels
of activity if diseased levels are going
up so you do want to make sure things
are going down now as a form of w-h-o
official I mean is it fair do you think
to criticize the w-h-o for its early
response was it confused I think it's
going to be fair to criticize everybody
w-h-o countries I don't think there's
any country that is not going to have to
go back and look at itself and say did
we do things right could we have done
better and I think that's also true for
w-h-o but I think we do need the
organization it is truly unique and
central we do need global leaders around
the world who rally around it because
there is nobody else who can do the same
jobs WH o I mean when we look back on
this do you think we will say
those Asian countries who were who had
learned from the Tsar's and MERS
outbreak were better prepared they were
able to adapt more quickly and Hong Kong
where I am now the government went ahead
to strengthen its health systems it went
ahead to strengthen its scientific
systems related to merging infectious
diseases it took a lot of steps like
that and the public itself made changes
in society professor thank you very much
indeed for your time thank you