Health experts involved in China's fight against coronavirus believe the worst is now over but some specialists say it is too soon to relax
Members of a medical assistance team from Jiangsu province sign a protective suit at a ceremony marking their departure after helping with the Covid-19 coronavirus recovery effort in Wuhan, in China on Mach 18, 2020.
Though they remain wary of the risks of "importing" cases from overseas, they say China should be capable of eliminating Covid-19 in the same way it eliminated Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003. SARS was eventually contained after the government imposed stringent screening and quarantine measures.
Ian Henderson, director of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, said China's actions to contain the virus have been "extraordinary" but there could be a second outbreak, this time imported. "The number one point to get across is that in terms of the behaviour of this virus we are still very much in the dark," Henderson said.
US President Donald Trump has been one of many to suggest that Covid-19 could go away of its own accord as temperatures rise in the northern hemisphere. The shock threatens to set back the ruling Communist Party's efforts to revive the world’s second-largest economy after it declared victory over the outbreak. It would add to pressures on global business activity as Western countries close workplaces, limit travel and tell consumers to stay home.
Officials say steel makers and other state-owned industries are almost back to normal. But conditions are more precarious for small, private companies that are China's economic engine and make clothes, toys and other consumer goods. Many are running at a fraction of normal levels or are closed due to a lack of materials and employees.
Economists who have slashed forecasts of this year’s global economic growth cite disruption to Chinese and US manufacturing as one reason.
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