154: Inside Italy’s coronavirus lockdown
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🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:40.4 | Hello and Spiked columnist Ella Wielen. |
| 0:42.6 | Hi. |
| 0:43.6 | Coming up on the show, coronavirus, Labour's free speech problem, and the hashtag, |
| 0:48.4 | Be Kind. |
| 0:49.4 | This is the worst public health crisis for a generation. |
| 0:55.0 | We must stay at home for a week if we get ill and avoid contact. |
| 0:59.0 | The measures aren't as severe as those being implemented in other parts of the world. |
| 1:02.0 | Schools, colleges and child care facilities. as those being implemented in other parts of the world. |
| 1:02.8 | Schools, colleges, and child care facilities |
| 1:05.0 | were closed from tomorrow. |
| 1:06.2 | We will be suspending all travel from Europe |
| 1:09.3 | to the United States for the next 30 days. |
| 1:20.0 | The World Health Organization has officially labeled the outbreak of coronavirus or COVID-19 as a pandemic. The number of cases outside China where the virus originated has increased 13fold in the past fortnight. |
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