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Lockdown lessons: What is the art of a good lockdown? ST foreign bureaus report
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A closed and boarded-up business in San Francisco, California. There has been no national lockdown in the US.
PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Nirmal Ghosh US Bureau Chief In Washington, Nirmal Ghosh
As Covid-19 cases rise across South-east and North-east Asia, this time in some countries and cities in the form of faster-spreading variants, the livelihoods of hundreds of millions hang on whether there should be a lockdown, and to what degree.
By and large, the classic policy response to outbreaks has been lockdowns.
