Forgoing the distance: covid-19 spreads in Brazil

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Even those who can distance themselves are unsure whether to do so—in part because President Jair Bolsonaro mocks the science and rails against lockdowns. The private-equity industry has ballooned since the last financial crisis; does that make it weaker or stronger in this one? And our correspondent investigates a Mexican-mummy mystery. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer

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1:01.2	Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
1:14.6	The private equity industry has plenty of detractors, who see the funds as draining the lifeblood of businesses and replacing it with debt.
1:23.6	As more fragile firms go bust, we look into private equity and ask how well it can weather the pandemic.
1:30.8	And the case of the missing mummies.
1:33.9	Our correspondent got wind of a controversy about some pretty old corpses.
1:38.3	When he went to investigate, he found a bigger debate about what's good for tourism and what's good for cultural heritage.
1:57.0	But first...
1:59.0	Yesterday, Brazil had another record day of COVID-19 deaths.
2:03.6	More than 1,200 people died.
2:05.6	The country has the second highest number of cases in the world, behind only America.
2:15.6	But Brazil's president, Jaird Bolsonaro, has downplayed the pandemic,
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