The official China Daily warned in an editorial that maintaining stringent restrictions on people's movements would 'now do more harm than good'. CNN New ZealandвЂ™s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed one coronavirus case the first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in the community. In the impoverished province of Gansu, government officials have been each required to spend at least 200 yuan ($AU48.70) a week to spur the recovery of the local catering industry.

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To persuade businesses to reopen, policymakers have promised loans, aids and subsidies. The pandemic has hammered all sectors of the economy - from manufacturing to tourism. The rise in imported cases and the lifting of restrictions in some cities to allow people to return to work and kickstart the battered Chinese economy has raised concerns of a second wave of infections.ДЄ private survey suggested that a 10-11 per cent contraction in first-quarter gross domestic product in the world's second-largest economy 'is not unreasonable'. Outside Hubei, authorities have continued to impose tougher screening and quarantine and have diverted international flights from Beijing to other Chinese cities, but that has not stemmed the influx of Chinese nationals, many of whom are students returning home from virus-hit countries.Д«eijing's City Government tightened quarantine rules for individuals arriving from overseas, saying that everyone entering the city will be subject to centralised quarantine and health checks. The PMO said the decision to implement the lockdown takes into account Malaysias Covid-19 cases, which exceeded 8,000 cases per day for the first time today, and has claimed 2,552 lives.

LIVE UPDATES: Read our blog for the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic One was in Wuhan which had not reported a new infection in five days. Only four new cases were local transmissions. The infections took the total number of imported cases to 427.

The Chinese capital Beijing was the hardest hit, with a record 31 new imported cases, followed by southern Guangdong province with 14 and the financial hub of Shanghai with nine.

Of the new cases, 74 were imported infections, up from 39 imported cases a day earlier. Damien Cave / New York Times: One Case, Total Lockdown: Australias Lessons for a Pandemic World Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.

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