Coronomics: has the virus damaged faith in politics?

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode, Mauricio Savarese reports on the latest from Brazil where the battle between the President Jair Bolsonaro and the media heats up. Kate Andrews updates on Britain's Covid situation with a report from the Times on an estimate for excess cancer deaths in 2021, and Cindy Yu reports on how Beijing's cluster infection has further damaged business and consumer confidence.

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0:29.4	Hello and welcome to Coronomics, the Spectator series on stories from countries turned upside down by COVID-19.
0:37.7	I'm Kate Andrews. Today's podcast features our panel, based around the world, who've selected a story that gives you an inside look at what's happening outside their windows. Cindy Yu is broadcast editor at The Spectator, based in London and reporting on China,
0:43.9	and Mauricio Ceverese is a reporter for the Associated Press based in Brazil. Welcome both.
0:49.9	Cindy, I'm going to start with you. I'm going to butcher this. You're going to do it much better than me,
0:54.2	but your story is from the Tasing Global Press outlet. And it's looking specifically at Beijing,
1:00.4	which perhaps a few weeks ago we thought was in the clear with COVID-19, but is now dealing with a second wave of infections.
1:07.6	Is it really a wave? But it certainly is having an impact on local business. Tell us
1:11.7	about it. So Taising is a Chinese media company, which is one of the more relatively independent
1:18.2	ones in China at the moment. So it's not directly taking its brief from the government.
1:23.6	And they've been doing amazing journalism throughout this pandemic. And one of the stories that they've picked out this week is about Beijing's reopening,
1:31.7	which has been later in the coming than the rest of the country because it's so close,
1:36.5	because it's the capital and it's so close to the Chinese leadership,
1:39.4	who are all in the at-risk group.
1:41.8	So Beijing has been cocooned, as it were.
1:44.0	In June, it started reopening.
1:46.2	Restaurants started reopening a couple of months after everyone else did in the rest of the country,
1:50.9	actually. This article was just looking at what happened last month when the seafood market in
1:55.6	Beijing started having a local cluster of outbreaks. Taising has called this a second wave, but it's really not a second wave.
2:03.0	So far in the last three weeks, there have been about 250 official infected,
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