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Hello and welcome to Coronomics, the Spectators series on stories from countries turned upside down by COVID-19.

I'm Kate Andrews. Each week we bring together a panel based around the world who give you an inside look at what's happening outside their windows.

This week I'm joined by Sylvia Ciroli Borelli, who's reporting from Rome and the land correspondent for the Financial Times. Jennifer Creary, who's managing editor of the Hong Kong Free Press

and reporting from Hong Kong, and Nick Gillespie, who's reporting from New York City and

Editor at Large for Reason magazine.

Welcome all. This is the last episode of Coronomics after our two series. I'm especially excited to be joined by the three of you because we kicked off the series together back in mid-April

when all of our countries were in the height of lockdown, we spent series

one talking about different political, economic, cultural stories coming out of our countries.

And then in series two, we brought in some more representatives from around the world.

But the three of you, Nick, Sylvia, and Jennifer have been at this since the beginning.

And so today, rather than looking at specific news stories

from our countries, I want to do more of a look back and think about where we were when this

first started in April and certainly where we are now and probably most importantly where we're

going in the future. So I'm going to ask the three of you to start to sum up where you think

your country was at back at the height of lockdown in mid-April, where you are now and where you're

going. Jennifer, I'm going to start with you in Hong Kong. Yeah, so you're right. You mentioned that

coronavirus had kind of taken a backseat. So it's interesting because at the beginning,

we spoke about how there was a lot of residual anger towards the government over last year's

protests. And that was very much transplanted onto COVID-19 and the way that the government

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