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Beyond the police state to COVID-safe: life after lockdown will need a novel approach

  • Written by Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University
Beyond the police state to COVID-safe: life after lockdown will need a novel approach

As second-wave outbreaks of COVID-19 around the world demonstrate, it’s a tricky transition from hard lockdowns to more relaxed, but still effective, measures.

The responses of different nations (Sweden and Taiwan, for example) have their champions, but the truth is there no shining example to follow on how to keep the coronavirus in check...

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