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What if shutdowns don’t work in South Asia?

The impracticality of social distancing for many will make it hard for countries in South Asia to contain the coronavirus. Failure to contain the disease would have dreadful humanitarian consequences and would also lead to much slower economic recoveries than we are currently expecting.

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