150 million people are under Coronavirus lockdown in China
Paraic O'Brien
Foreign Affairs Correspondent
In China itself – as many as 150 million people, more than twice the population of Britain are now living in unprecedented lockdown
In China itself – as many as 150 million people, more than twice the population of Britain are now living in unprecedented lockdown – while half of them forced to live with some kind of restricted travel – like only being allowed to leave home for a couple of hours at a time.
China’s president Xi Jinping told Boris Johnson in a phone call earlier today that the country was making “visible progress” in keeping the outbreak contained. But how effective are these draconian measures?
Paraic O’Brien reports.
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