After weeks in lockdown, many parts of Europe and the United States are planning to ease social restrictions as the number of new coronavirus cases slows.
But a new outbreak in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin serves as a cautionary tale about how quickly the virus can start spreading again, public health experts say.
"The cases will likely go back up and we will have to tighten our lockdown strategy again," Kwok Kin-on, an infectious diseases specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told Inkstone.
Harbin – which is about 300 miles from the Russian border – has reported 84 new cases since early April after weeks of reporting no new cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by t
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Apr 28, 2020