strategy, such systems could help keep the engines of growth running while other curbs remain in place.
Still, as the outbreak was contained and Wuhan started to cautiously emerge from restrictions, it started to deployto those now being rolled out in the south, with computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. taking factory workers’ temperatures multiple times a day and isolating staff for testing. Such measures enabled China to emerge swiftly from the initial pandemic economic hit, despite fears restarting factories would contribute to the virus’s spread. The theory may be the same now.
“I don’t know of any companies that have been able to execute this yet, but we’re hopeful that something like this could be approved on a case-by-case basis as a workaround to the current quarantine restrictions,” Hart said.