How countries are dealing with Coronavirus: lockdowns, social distancing, testing and herd immunity

With the UK becoming the latest country to do so - and with a fifth of the world in lockdown - nations around the world are beginning to follow a similar pattern in terms of how they’re tackling the coronavirus. Albeit on different schedules. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) In this video we look at different approaches taken to tackling Covid-19: social distancing, lockdowns, mass testing and herd immunity. These are different approaches to the same issue: stoping the spread and trying to flatten the curve, that’s the idea that in fighting this pandemic - we need to slow the rate of infections to give hospitals the chance to deal with patients without being overwhelmed - as well as giving us more time to find remedies and vaccines. ------- Watch more of our explainer series here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Follow us: Facebook -   / channel4news   Twitter -   / channel4news