In need of Comfort: New York's covid-19 crisis
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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New York is at the centre of America’s—and the world’s—coronavirus crisis. The metropolis has also been caught in a damaging three-way political division, involving three of its native sons. In the Middle East and north Africa, governments have imposed unusually harsh covid-19 crackdowns, but will the authoritarians let up afterwards? And we report on a golden age for African art.
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| 1:00.0 | The Middle East and North Africa have so far been spared the worst of COVID-19, |
| 1:04.8 | with a terrible exception of Iran. |
| 1:07.6 | Across the region, astonishingly tight restrictions are in force, |
| 1:11.5 | but will authoritarian regimes loosen their grip when the health crisis passes? |
| 1:17.9 | And African art is enjoying a golden age, |
| 1:21.3 | encompassing artists in all mediums from across the continent, |
| 1:25.5 | auctions online naturally, |
| 1:27.8 | of attracting more interest than ever. |
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