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cord-035137-uxtaw02u	Chowdhury, Anis Z.	Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Developing Countries: Lessons from Selected Countries of the Global South	2020-11-10		.txt	text/plain	6821	363	51	But most national authorities outside of East Asia did not take adequate early precautionary measures speedily enough to contain the spread of the outbreak, typically by promoting safe 'physical distancing', obligatory use of masks in public areas, and other measures to reduce the spread and likelihood of infection. Government capacity to respond depends crucially on system capacity and capabilities-e.g., authorities' ability to speedily trace, isolate and treat the infected-and available fiscal resources-e.g., to quickly enhance testing capacity and secure personal protective equipment (PPE). Finally, it draws some implications of different policy responses in East Asia, Southeast Asia-especially Vietnam, and India's Kerala state-Argentina, Brazil and Peru, that are relevant for other countries. And where communities or clusters had significant infection rates, urgent, targeted measures could have helped 'turn the tide' on COVID-19 with decisive early actions, as in China, Korea and Vietnam, without imposing nationwide 'stay in shelter' or 'shelter in place' lockdowns, 16 or restrictions on movements of people within its borders.	./cache/cord-035137-uxtaw02u.txt	./txt/cord-035137-uxtaw02u.txt