Covid-19 and the World
An hour-long special exploring which countries have fared better during the pandemic and why?
No crisis has had the global reach and impact of Covid-19. There have been more than 120 million recorded cases of the Coronavirus and 2.7 million people have died and curbs on people鈥檚 freedoms have become a familiar part of daily life in many parts of the world.
Just over a year since the world started to get to grips with the first global pandemic in more than a century, what can we say about how different countries have dealt it?
Which countries have been worst-affected and why? Which public health systems have held up best? Why did test and trace work in some countries but not in others?
Around the world governments have propped up their economies accruing eye-watering amounts of debt, but was it money well spent?
Where and why has the vaccine roll out been most successful? And what could be the lasting legacy of the pandemic?
Contributors:
Dr.Thomas Hale, Oxford University
Prof. Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Nazmeera Moola, Ninety One, a South African asset management company
Dr Monica DeBolle, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Jerome Kim, Director General of the International Vaccine Initiative
Rasmus Bech Hansen, founder and CEO of Airfinity
Dr. Jennifer Cole, Royal Holloway, University of London
Kishore Mahbubani, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore
Producers: Tim Mansel, Paul Moss, Kirsteen Knight
Sound Engineer: James Beard
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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