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Hello and welcome to the spiked podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and with me as ever we have

Spikes deputy editor Tom Slater. Hello.

And Spike columnist Ella Whelan.

Hi.

Coming up on the show, what coronavirus means for the EU,

Sweden's alternative coronavirus strategy,

and the UK's overzealous coronavirus cops.

Across Europe almost four hundred and sixty thousand people have been

infected with this virus.

The spread of coronavirus shut borders across Europe.

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