WHO's COVID-19 special envoy says:
"What I was saying we don't want lockdown, it was not to say 'we should just let go' - it was to say we've got to get the systems right and once the systems are right then we can avoid the lockdown".
Such systems include testing and tracing.
"The way in which you stop this virus from building up in a community is spotting where spikes of disease are appearing."
He said once you catch these spikes, you find people with the disease and isolate them "really rigorously".
"And then you do everything you can to make certain that the people who are most vulnerable are protected.
"And if you've got a surge building up - a sort of real outbreak - then you may have to stop people moving into and out of the area."
"But in that way you stop the virus from spreading - it's a terribly infectious virus. Stopping the spread is the key.
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