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From the Foreword: Britain has to have a coherent strategy for living with Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], which will last until there is a vaccine available that is able to be scaled for the whole population That is the stark reality But the economic and health costs of lockdown are so immense that we need at the same time to get as many people back to work and have as much of \'normal\' life return as possible The only viable solution is to build a containment infrastructure that is comprehensive and that embodies the best technology and practice A gold standard, if you like Despite the progress which has been made, Britain is still significantly short of attaining that standard Whether we reach it depends on the decisions taken now In this paper we set out the different elements of such an infrastructure Lockdown won\'t eliminate the virus on its own It does, however, give us time to prepare and to build so that we can open up as widely as possible and as safely as possible Otherwise we will find that the economic, social and health devastation of the lockdown has an impact as serious or, in some ways, more serious than the disease itself COVID-19 (Disease);Disaster recovery;Public health
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