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23 January 2020 – China locks down the city of Wuhan and its 9 million people, in a belated but ultimately successful effort to control the city’s COVID-19 epidemic. The central government of China imposed a lockdown in an effort to quarantine the center of an outbreak of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19 ; this action was commonly referred to as the Wuhan lockdown. WHO, although stating that it was beyond its own guidelines, commended the move, calling it “unprecedented in public health history”. The lockdown in Wuhan set the precedent for similar measures in other Chinese cities. Within hours of the Wuhan lockdown,...
