https://www.scmp.com/rss/505391/feed Dale Whittington is a professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US, and the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com More developing countries have imposed lockdowns as the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection soared in the last week. India has been under an unprecedented nationwide lockdown since March 25, with the country’s 1.3 billion people ordered to stay at home for at least 21 days. South Africa started a three-week lockdown on March 27 and brought in the military to ensure it is enforced. In Indonesia, President Joko Widodo, commonly known as Jokowi, so far has resisted calls to impose a... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3077552/why-coronavirus-lockdowns-will-not-be-easy-developing-countries?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3077552/why-coronavirus-lockdowns-will-not-be-easy-developing-countries?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:30:15 +0000