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Fact File: European COVID-19 Focus Shifts To Managing The ‘New Normal’

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The evolution of how and where patients receive their care has received an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 crisis. Coronavirus volume testing challenges persist, but the global medtech industry is now looking beyond the crisis toward a return to “normal” business.

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During May, nations in the European epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic began to loosen the lockdown measures they imposed in mid-to-late March. Economic pressures largely drove national decisions to reopen business and industry – but without either full justification on health grounds or the full confidence of the population.

German health minister Jens Spahn on several occasions warned publicly that the pandemic was far from over, and its effects...

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