LONDON - Lockdown and social distancing measures introduced by the British government to slow the spread of Covid-19 may already be working, according to preliminary research findings, and could soon see Britain's epidemic of infections declining.
He added, however, that the findings were very preliminary and should not be seen as suggesting"job done". Reproduction number The research, which was not peer-reviewed but was posted on LSHTM'S Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases website, looked at a key feature of infectious disease epidemics known as the reproduction number, sometimes called the R0, or"R nought".
The finding that the mean number of contacts per person measured is more than 70 per cent lower now than before the lockdown suggests that the R0 reproduction value now would be between 0.37 and 0.89, they said, with the most likely value being 0.62.
Singapore's measures also doing well to slow down the spread , no need lockdown , some countries also emulate Singapore's containment measures . Singaporeans doing great , foreign workers problems , those at Little India problematic , MOM will do something for sure this round .
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