Fighting covid-19: A tale of two countries

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Linah Mohammad reflects on the strict lockdown in Jordan. Ishaan Tharoor unpacks how the “Swedish model” for battling coronavirus is not quite what it seems. Plus, Amanda Coletta explains why expanding your household’s bubble could be a headache.

Jordan uses its army to put its capital, Amman, on lockdown.

Sweden’s coronavirus strategy is not what it seems.

Canadian provinces allow locked-down households to pair up – threatening hurt feelings all around.

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0:33.0	Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:38.8	This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.
0:44.4	It's Tuesday, May 19th.
0:48.9	Today, what lockdown looks like in Jordan,
0:52.3	a controversial approach in Sweden,
0:54.8	and the new guidelines causing drama in Canada.
1:05.9	Every day after in PM, we hear the sound of the silence.
1:10.2	This is the same alarm that would be used in case of a war.
1:14.6	And it lasts for about five minutes.
1:18.4	My name is Samar Samur. I work in the IT sector.
1:21.2	My name is Marwa Banat and I am a civil engineer in Amman, Jordan.
1:26.1	So almost every night at 7 pm,
1:29.2	these sirens just go off across the entire country of Jordan,
1:36.0	announcing the beginning of the curfew.
1:39.7	I'm Lena Muhammad and I'm a producer for Post Reports.
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