well those of you watching now if you've
been watching across the last two weeks
you'll know that the biggest single
issue in this crisis has been how
countries ease their lock downs without
causing a spike in cases and I'm going
to start in Lebanon to illustrate just
how hard this is going to be because the
government there has now re-imposed its
lock down because of a new rise in cases
you can see in these pictures shops
restaurants and Hair Salons had been
allowed to reopen but now they're being
told to close again I should say the
Lebanese government's approach through
this crisis has been effective the
country's death toll is below 30 but as
with many other countries the
government's trying to both save lives
and the economy and this is even more
pressing in Lebanon where the economy
was already in a perilous State Green
Torbay in Beirut has more 5 a.m. on
Monday this is a setback for the
countries it was just days ago
celebrating 0 new infections and was
easing the lockdown and preparing for a
gradual return to normal now things have
worsened and there are renewed fears
that things might go out of control
again in case of an outbreak there is
also a sort of a blame game happening
here on one side the government is
saying that many in the society are not
being as vigilant as they should and
they are not observing the necessary
safety measures on the other side there
is anger towards some of the Lebanese
who have recently returned from abroad
who have tested positive and a group
among whom have not respected the
requirements of self-isolation next
return to Saudi Arabia where lockdown
has been announced for the Eid holiday
which will take place in around 10 days
time already Ramadan has been heavily
disrupted these pictures are of the
Grand Mosque in Mecca holding night
prayers for the first night of Ramadan
this was in April normally you'd see
hundreds of
thousands of people gathered for this
but not in 2020 now these new
restrictions on the Eid holiday will run
from May the 23rd to May the 27th and of
course these are normally times of great
celebration at the end of Ramadan those
celebrations will still happen but not
as they normally do and this is another
example of how mindful governments are
being of the virus surging back while
the China next and of course it was the
first to tackle this virus and the first
to try and ease restrictions while
controlling the number of cases and
already in China we're seeing the kind
of localized lockdowns that are likely
to become a feature of life in many
countries our focus today G lean is a
city in the east of China it's shutting
down its transport links after a new
cluster of coronavirus cases that's
connected to one man now no one in the
city's population of 4 million can leave
now unless they've tested negative
here's more from our China correspondent
Steven McDonald it's being traced back
to a cleaner in a large police station
this is a police station with special
weapons police with traffic police
hundreds of offices and you can imagine
why the authorities will be worried
about the virus getting into a
population like that now it's not clear
how the cleaner was originally infected
but one theory has been that it possibly
came from the clothing of the police
officers who have been at the front line
in terms of doing coronavirus testing
either way what this shows you is that
the Chinese government now has an
attitude that if there's a cluster
anywhere in this country no matter how
small it is they're going to crush it or
at least try to with very strict
measures as a way of trying to prevent a
second wave of this virus passing
through the country where this global
emergency first started Russia now and
it's having far less success than China
in containing the virus it's reported
more than 10,000 cases for the 11th
consecutive day that brings its overall
total of cases to over 240,000 now
earlier this week President Putin
announced that be
this's will go back to work and cities
as you can see had been noticeably
busier but the government is still under
pressure the Health Ministry has had to
deny that it's under reporting the
number of fatalities the official
statistic is 2200 but just as we
discussed yesterday with reference to
the UK many statisticians feel the most
accurate measure is to compare how many
deaths we'd expect per week at this time
of year and then compare it with what's
happening in 2020 do that in Russia and
it looks like the death toll could be
over three times higher for the moment
though the government is continuing with
its plans for Russian society to reopen
now as we continue to try and understand
the easing of restrictions and how they
impact on societies Denmark is very
useful or lots of countries are just
beginning this process
well Danish children have already been
back at school for a month and the BBC's
gene Mackenzie has been looking at how
that's working the schools been cleverly
redrawn so each child only comes into
contact with a very small number of
other children normally they sit - and -
yep the class of 20 has been cut down to
2 groups of 10 that's why there you have
the plastic because those two groups
aren't allowed to make know exactly when
they're going outside and the breaks we
have to divide those groups into even
smaller groups so the kids just have
four other children that they're allowed
to play with and they're only given one
part of the playground that they're
allowed to be in and there's a lot of
this Denmark reopened primary schools
very early on it was feared the
infection rate would rise and initially
he did but it's back down again and with
so many parents in work here this was a
targeted risk if we had to give the
economy moving again then we need to get
the kids back into not only schools but
also daycare to try to enhance
productivity for those forced still to
work at home
it was a challenge to do your job while
having in home it's much more easy for
me to concentrate have a row of hours
where I can just work this they said was
impossible children social distancing
now it might not be school as they know
it but they're making it work so some
better news there from Denmark more
better news as well from Taiwan it's
reporting zero new cases for a sixth day
in a row that's evidence that the virus
can be contained but of course the
challenge here is to keep it that way
while allowing some elements of normal
life at least to resume and cache of
that challenge as we've been seeing in
all those examples is one that's being
faced by many countries around the world
at the moment