Coronavirus Around the World
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe, it can be difficult to keep track of how the virus has spread and how different countries have responded. So, this week we are doing something a little bit different. We are bringing you dispatches about how nine different countries are handling the COVID-19 outbreak. Jacob Schulz spoke with experts about the situations in Poland, Spain, South Korea, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Iran, China, and Great Britain. You will hear from journalists, Brookings experts, a former CIA officer, and a Member of European Parliament, among others.
What are the restrictions different governments have put in place? What legal authorities have they relied on? How has COVID-19 and the corresponding government response affected life in each of the countries?
Guests this week were Amanda Sloat, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Radek Sikorski, Member of European Parliament and former Polish Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Alex Finley, satirist and former CIA officer; Brian Kim, Lawfare contributor and law student at Yale Law School; Giovanna De Maio, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution; Joshua Yaffa, the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker; Erin Bates, law student and freelance broadcast journalist in South Africa; Suzanne Maloney, Interim Vice President of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution; and Sophia Yan, China correspondent for the Telegraph.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | We run was one of the early cases of outbreak. |
| 0:37.0 | Unfortunately, Poland is doing far fewer tests than other countries. |
| 0:41.0 | So Italy now has been reported over 74,000 people in total. |
| 0:47.0 | The virus is starting to spread in the UK. |
| 0:51.0 | One of the things that is so telling in South Africa is that we have many South Africa's. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, I'm in Seoul, Korea. Where my family lives. |
| 1:01.0 | The Chinese authorities have reported over 80,000 infections in China. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm a bit worried that Russia is not doing enough. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the LawFair podcast March 28, 2020. |
| 1:15.0 | As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe, |
| 1:19.0 | it can be difficult to keep track of how the virus has spread |
| 1:23.0 | and how different countries have responded. |
| 1:25.0 | So this week, we're doing something a little bit different. |
| 1:29.0 | We're bringing you dispatches about how nine different countries are handling the coronavirus outbreak. |
| 1:35.0 | I spoke with experts about the situations in Poland, Spain, South Korea, Italy, Russia, South Africa, |
| 1:43.0 | Iran, China, and Great Britain. |
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