The pandemic is here: The story of what China did to contain the virus
Mass CT scans, four-hour turn-around on tests, and a thousand-bed hospital built in a few days - can a democracy do the same?
It seems that as the rest of the world braces for what, on 11 March, has officially been declared a pandemic, China has successfully managed to contain its own outbreak — at least at the time of writing.
On Saturday, state media reported 99 new cases over the previous 24 hours — the first time since 23 January that such statistics have been limited to just two digits.
So to what has this apparent success been due?
We’ve read about the city-wide lockdowns, the strict emergency measures, and we all saw the time-lapse video showing the sudden construction of a 1000-bed hospital facility from a hole in the ground in just over a week.
