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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Coronavirus causing unrest around the world, including ominous signs of much worse to come

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Plus, President Trump says the federal government will do more to make swabs available for coronavirus testing, and pro-gun activists are using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm James Holman from The Washington Post and this is the Daily

0:06.9

202 for Monday, April 20. In today's news, President Trump says the federal

0:12.3

government will do more to make swabs available for

0:15.6

coronavirus testing. These anti-quarantine protests are not as organic as they seem, and doctors are getting nervous about the disappearance

0:26.3

from emergency rooms of patients with chest pains.

0:45.8

But first, the big idea. As more than half the people on the planet hunker down under some form of enforced confinement. Sturings of political and social unrest are pointing to a new potentially turbulent phase in the global effort to stem the coronavirus pandemic.

0:57.0

Already, protests spurred by the collapse of economic activity have erupted in scattered locations around the world.

1:05.0

Tens of thousands of migrant laborers stranded without work or a way home staged demonstrations last week in the Indian City of Mumbai crowding together in defiance

1:15.2

of social distancing rules in locked down Lebanon which was already

1:20.2

confronting financial collapse before the coronavirus paralyzed its economy.

1:24.8

Angry people have swarmed the streets in Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli on at least

1:30.8

three occasions. In Iraq, where a six-month-old protest movement demanding

1:35.8

political reforms fizzled in the face of the country's coronavirus curfew.

1:41.4

There have been spontaneous but brief outbursts of rage in the city of Nazarea and the

1:47.4

impoverished Baghdad neighborhood of Sauter City.

1:51.1

In Kenya, more people have died in police crackdowns on citizens define the coronavirus curfew as of the coronavirus itself.

2:00.0

The UN and the IMF are among those warning that the pandemic could soon unleash what UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez calls a significant threat to the maintenance of international peace and security. We're seeing problems

2:14.7

even in the developed world. In Italy's relatively impoverished south, the

2:19.7

lifting of restrictions earlier this month led to a massive crime wave that has obliged police to

2:26.4

guard supermarkets being targeted for robberies by hungry citizens.

2:31.6

More than 2 billion people worldwide depend on day work to survive.

2:38.2

For many of them, not working often means not eating. A new study by a UN think tank, the World Institute for Development

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