A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) administers a test at an El Rio Health Covid-19 drive-thru testing site in Tucson, Arizona. Photo: Bloomberg

Philip Bowring

Are coronavirus lockdowns justified given the health, economic and social costs?

While billions are being pumped into Covid-19 vaccine research, diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria continue to have high mortality rates

Perhaps, Covid-19 is attracting attention because it largely affects old people in rich countries

Philip Bowring

Published: 9:00am, 19 Jul, 2020

Updated: 10:13am, 20 Jul, 2020

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A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) administers a test at an El Rio Health Covid-19 drive-thru testing site in Tucson, Arizona. Photo: Bloomberg

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Philip Bowring has been based in Asia for 39 years writing on regional financial and political issues. He has been a columnist for the South China Morning Post since the mid-1990s and for the International Herald Tribune from 1992 to 2011. He also contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal, www.asiasentinel.com, a website of which he is a founder, and elsewhere. Prior to 1992 he was with the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review, latterly as editor.

Are coronavirus lockdowns justified given the health, economic and social costs?

While billions are being pumped into Covid-19 vaccine research, diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria continue to have high mortality rates Perhaps, Covid-19 is attracting attention because it largely affects old people in rich countries

While billions are being pumped into Covid-19 vaccine research, diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria continue to have high mortality rates

Perhaps, Covid-19 is attracting attention because it largely affects old people in rich countries