Name: 冠狀病毒：為什麼西部會受到更嚴重的打擊FT (Coronavirus: why the west will be hit harder FT)
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Europe has now become the epicentre of the pandemic.

75 per cent of the world's new coronavirus cases

And in the worst affected countries, Italy and Spain,

did in China at the very start of the epidemic.

If they do, it's predicted that death rates in these countries

will continue to climb by 33 per cent every day.

This is despite signs that China is getting the outbreak there

And neighbouring countries, like Hong Kong and Singapore,

have managed to contain the virus more effectively

So why the difference between east and west?

And what could it mean for the west's recovery?

that western health services have been able to carry out.

We have a simple message for all countries - test, test, test.

The World Health Organisation has made its position

You can't know what you're up against until you

designed to keep people away from hospitals

and to deliver results to them within hours.

It's meant that they've been able to test thousands

more potentially infected people every day,

all helping isolation efforts and reducing

Meanwhile, testing in most western countries

is somewhere between a quarter and a tenth

in the west is down to another key factor, lack of resources.

There's simply aren't enough testing kits to go around.

But that's no longer the most important concern.

While Japan and South Korea have seven hospital

beds per 1,000 people, the UK, US and Italy have just two.

to repurpose ventilators, which are going

to be needed for patients with severe symptoms,

even committing to building them from scratch in some cases.

Beyond the physical capability of health systems

there are many more less tangible differences

between east and west, which may create just

as much divergence between each region's coronavirus response.

Call it culture, politics, behaviour - for me,

China was able to impose strict sanctions because of the way

Beijing governs its people from top down.

But eastern democracies have done a better job

of containing the virus by being transparent and clear

And the people in those countries have obeyed.

started to speak more openly and more often

This isn't wagging the finger at western democracies.

But since that shared trauma the countries worst affected

systems to make sure they were prepared for the next crisis.

Those hard lessons have put them in good stead.

Whereas the west is catching up with a crisis

take longer to adapt, which means more cases, more deaths,

But if there is any long-term consolation,

both from the eastern experience and from our own.

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冠狀病毒：為什麼西部會受到更嚴重的打擊FT (Coronavirus: why the west will be hit harder FT)

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