Economies that were locked down are reopening. Beaches are filling up. Yet the global pandemic is accelerating— including in many countries that are easing their restrictions. It took the world three months to reach 1m confirmed cases; adding the latest 1m took a week. While residents of European countries and US states might hope loosening lockdowns mark the beginning of the end, they are merely the end of the beginning. The pandemic is entering a new phase in which, until there is a treatment or vaccine, the world must learn to live with the virus.
被封鎖的經濟體正在重新開放。海灘上的人多了起來。然而，全球新型冠狀病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠狀病毒病）疫情正在加速——包括在許多正在放鬆限制的國家。之前全球新冠確診病例達到100萬用了三個月；而最近新增100萬確診病例僅用了一週。雖然歐洲各國及美國各州的居民可能希望放鬆封鎖標誌着終結的開端，但這其實只是序幕的結束。這場大流行病正進入一個新的階段，在某種療法或疫苗問世前，全世界必須學會與新冠病毒共存。