What a coronavirus lockdown might mean for London

How countries from China to Italy have imposed measures to curb the spread of Covid-19

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When China announced plans to lock down Wuhan and most of the surrounding Hubei province, the news was greeted with astonishment around the world. Experts warned that it was an unprecedented and risky attempt to control the virus that might not work.

Nearly two months later, with the daily number of new cases in China down to single digits last week, Wuhan is starting to emerge from two months of isolation, and this approach has become the model for other countries with outbreaks that appear to be sliding out of control.

Now there is speculation the British government is preparing to implement something similar in London, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in Britain.

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