About a fifth of the world’s population is now under some sort of lockdown to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus. At the same time, China has announced it will be lifting the restrictions on people in Wuhan and the surrounding province of Hubei, where the virus was first identified, and President Donald Trump wants to get America back to work in a matter of weeks. The World’s host Marco Werman sorts out the contradictory messages and gets the latest recommendations from Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization.
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