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NPR: WHO sets 6 conditions for ending a coronavirus lockdown

By NPR.

Published April 16, 2020 at 5:15 am

A wild deer roams in a deserted street during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in the port city of Trincomalee on March 31, 2020.

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For the billions of people now living under some form of stay-at-home or lockdown orders, experts from the World Health Organization have new guidance: We should be ready to “change our behaviors for the foreseeable future,” they say, as the agency updates its advice on when to lift COVID-19 lockdown orders.