How coronavirus will reshape the world’s borders

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Martine Powers and Ishaan Tharoor explore the meaning of borders in a pandemic, and how coronavirus might change travel and migration in the future. And Mary Beth Sheridan walks us through public service announcements from around the world.

Countries are slamming borders shut. What will it look like when they reopen?

From Japan to Uganda, global public service announcements are emerging to help fight coronavirus.

Check out our episode from December about “sober curiosity,” which one listener said is helping him through social distancing.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi there, is the mayor, Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hey, it's Dossie, order to pick your brain on the platform.
0:11.0	Hi, it's Jenna Johnson.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday, April 15th.
0:23.0	Today, how the global pandemic is reshaping borders
0:27.0	and the sounds of coronavirus PSAs from around the world.
0:36.0	A few weeks ago, on the island of Grenada in the southern Caribbean,
0:40.0	there was an announcement that was actually pretty relevant to my life.
0:47.0	The implication of this disease in our population
0:51.0	that urgent and immediate action is required to identify and curb this spread.
0:58.0	The Prime Minister of Grenada was worried about people coming into the country with coronavirus,
1:04.0	so he decided to take drastic action.
1:07.0	In our attempt to do so, we have closed our borders.
1:12.0	And that meant starting March 25th, no one would be coming in or out of the country.
1:22.0	Hello.
1:25.0	How are you?
1:27.0	Locked down.
1:29.0	Yeah, wait, so what's going on?
1:31.0	I think they're still allowing FedEx and stuff like that.
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