Was a lockdown avoidable? --- @Eduardo: I would tend to disagree on that! Covid 19 spread quickly because of our highly globalised and interdependent world. Throughout history, cities have been closed because of plague or other diseases. If you recall the terrible scenes in Northern Italy, I can't imagine another immediate measure than to a lockdown to try to contain the pandemic. Maybe we would have reopened quicker as most probably the economic and psychological effects of the lockdown would have been much bigger if we wouldn't have had internet, the possibility to communicate with our loved ones, to work from home etc. But all this takes us out of our topic: CI. Sorry for that!

Source author: Florence Tinguely Mattli florence.tinguely-mattli@eda.admin.ch