Should lockdown only be lifted when coronavirus is 'fully under control'? This is what Echo reader said
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the UK into lockdown for three weeks on Monday, March 23, in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus.
It was then extended for a further three weeks as the Government takes steps to try and prevent a second peak.
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Hide AdNow more than 26,000 people have died in the UK after testing positive for Covid-19.
Research has suggested that Britons are ‘the most cautious’ when it comes to reopening the economy following the Covid-19 outbreak.
We asked Sunderland Echo readers: “Do you think coronavirus should be ‘fully under control’ before the economy and businesses reopen?”
Out of more than 1,700 people who responded, 83% agreed that the economy and businesses should not reopen until the coronavirus is fully under control.
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Hide AdHowever many have also questioned how the British economy and businesses will cope.
Here’s what our readers thought about the issue:
Lola Rossi: “It should be but the country will go bankrupt having to pay peoples’ wages before you get this under control, its gone too far to get it back.”
Gary Thompson: “It should have been a Marshall law lockdown from day one. It would all be over now.”
Doris Cleghorn: “Open it up man. Project Fear.”
Janet Welsh: “If everyone does as they [are] supposed to do and STAY AT HOME we will get it under control and get back quicker.”
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Hide AdBarry Hyde: “If the question means should loc down stay in place until a vaccine has been created, adequately tested and circulated around the entire globe, then I vote no. That would take far too long, surely?”
Che Thornton: “This virus might NEVER be fully under control. How do we calculate the indirect lives lost by extending lockdown unnecessarily? It could actually mean double the deaths.”
Wilf Laws: “Remember the 'Spanish' flu epidemic of 1918-1920. Relaxation of the rules too early led to another wave of infections and deaths.”
Heather Addison: “If this goes on and on, there will be no businesses to go back to?”