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Exit from coronavirus lockdowns – lessons from 6 countries

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
People, some wearing masks, enjoy a walk in a park in Rome as Italy, the first nation to impose a nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus, begins to reopen – slowly.Franco Origlia/Getty Images

It has been less than two months since the world scrambled to go into the “Great Lockdown” to slow the spread of COVID-19. Now, many...

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