From nudge to shove: How the UK's COVID-19 strategy shifted over 7 days 

The UK response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been met with a mix of curiosity and anger from experts at home and overseas, with accusations of passivity in Chinese media as recently as last Sunday, but over the past seven days the approach has rapidly accelerated from suggestions to orders and herds to isolation.

That journey, still slower and more incremental than in countries like Spain, Italy and France, will reshape life in Britain for years to come.

While there isn't a one-size fits all response — the UK does not have an epicenter, unlike China or Italy, which poses different challenges — the evidence from Asia has been that moving early and hard while testing extensively, isolating and tracing contacts of infected people is effective in slowing the spread of the virus.

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