Coronavirus edition #9: Talking Tedros: WHO chief in spotlight — Sweden's light-touch lockdown
Brussels Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
4.4 • 205 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 1:21.5 | website for full details. I'm declaring a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of novel coronavirus. |
| 1:31.3 | The main reason for this declaration is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries. |
| 1:40.3 | Welcome to EU Confidential. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor, and this is our ninth extra |
| 1:46.9 | episode devoted to the coronavirus crisis. And you just heard the head of the World Health |
| 1:52.2 | Organization, Tedros adhanom Gabriessus, declaring the coronavirus a public health emergency |
| 1:58.8 | at the end of January. Tedros is the man in the eye of the public health emergency at the end of January. |
| 2:05.5 | Tedros is the man in the eye of the public health and geopolitical storm whipped up by the coronavirus and we'll hear much more about him in just a second. |
| 2:11.6 | Also today we'll travel to Stockholm. |
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