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It's Thursday the 5th of March 2020. I'm Robert Guest, foreign editor at the Economist.

Welcome to Editors' Picks, where each week we choose three highlights from the paper.

They're read aloud so you can listen on the go.

Our cover this week looks at how governments should prepare for the spread of COVID-19.

The pandemic threatens an economic crisis as well as a health crisis and both will need fixing.

Wherever the virus takes hold, containing it and mitigating its effects will involve more

than doctors and paramedics. A concerted effort is needed to protect people and companies

as supply chains fracture and the worried and the ill shut themselves away.

Freedom is being stolen in Africa. Outsiders should back the Africans who want to reclaim it.

And finally, the former boss of General Electric Jack Welsh has died.

He transformed American capitalism in good ways and bad.

The stories you're about to hear are just a sample of what's in this week's paper.

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