Tough Travel Bans Only ‘Modestly’ Slow Coronavirus Spread: Study
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By E.J. Mundell
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, March six, 2020 (HealthDay Information) — An in-depth assessment of rigorous journey bans, both equally in and outdoors of China, finds that they could have completed little to impede the spread of coronavirus.
In actuality, even the draconian ninety% journey restrictions put on inhabitants residing in the epidemic’s epicenter, Wuhan, “delayed the in general epidemic progression by only three to five days in mainland China,” according to researchers who published their results March six in the journal Science.
As to bans on flights from Wuhan to other countries,