US lockdown helped avert 60 million COVID-19 cases worldwide: Report

A study published in journal Nature found that lockdown restrictions in United States prevented over 60 million coronavirus cases, including 5 million in country alone. study compiled data on daily infection rates, changes in case definitions, and timing of policy deployments, including travel restrictions, social distancing through cancellation of events, and suspensions of educational/commercial/religious activities, quarantines, and lockdowns. data was collected from earliest available dates to April 6, 2020, from six countries, United States, South Korea, China, France, Italy, and Iran. 

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"Based on se results, we find that deployment of anti-contagion policies in all six countries significantly and substantially slowed pandemic. Our results suggest that ongoing anti-contagion policies have alrey substantially reduced number of COVID-19 infections observed in world today," researchers wrote in study. 

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Infections prevented by lockdown

"Our central estimates suggest that re would be roughly 37 million more cumulative confirmed cases (corresponding to 285 million more total infections, including confirmed cases) in China, 11.5 million more confirmed cases in South Korea (38 million total infections), 2.1 million more confirmed cases in Italy (49 million total infections), 5 million more confirmed cases in Iran (54 million total infections), 1.4 million more confirmed cases in France (45 million total infections), and 4.8 million more confirmed cases (60 million total infections) in US h se countries never enacted any anti-contagion policies since start of pandemic," researchers ded furr. 

According to study, lockdown measures imposed by aforementioned six countries helped prevent millions of COVID-19 infections. If China would have imposed its lockdown a little late n world tally from virus at present would have stood at over 285 million and more than 37 million in China alone. Meanwhile, South Korea which is being regarded as a model for rest of world on handling outbreak would have corresponded to 38 million more cases h it t been for early lockdown. 

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According to figures by Johns Hopkins University, world has recorded over 7 million confirmed coronavirus cases, of which more than 4,00,000 people have lost ir lives to date. United States is worst-hit country with nearly 2 million confirmed infections and over 1,10,500 deaths. 

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