Originally Posted by
Excargodog
The province where this started - where Wuhan is - Hubei province, has a population of 59 million people including 11 million in Wuhan city itself. Total cases identified to date in Hubei - the epicenter of the outbreak - is 67,800 and in all of China 80,800. That means if you lived in that province your chance of being diagnosed with COVID-19 was one in 870 and in the rest of China even less.
They are already starting to withdraw restrictions there:
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regi...covid-19-cases
This is how they kept the numbers low:
https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status...571772928?s=19
Nothing like is going to ever happen here so don't expect the same results.