Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

COVID-19 has hit Native American communities particularly hard, but it's not just lives

being lost. Attribes elders are not just the most susceptible to the disease, they're

often the last people who know local customs, rituals, and even languages. And in China,

a company's rubber stamp or chop is more official than any signature. Problem is, whoever

holds the chop controls the company. Recently, that's led to some pretty interesting

power grabs. But first, tomorrow, Britain's Prime Minister will make an announcement on something

dear to British hearts, three opening of pubs. It's one part of the next stage of lockdown

easing in England, which will come into effect on July 4th. Compared with the rest of Europe,

Britain has been slow to reopen, in part because it was so slow to shut in the first place.

As other countries first prepared their lockdown plans, there was a lot going on. On March

7th, the England Wales Rugby game in London, which the Prime Minister attended, along with

a crowd of 81,000. On March 13th, there was the Cheltenham Festival, one of the country's

premier race meetings, which a quarter of a million people attended. And a day later,

a packed out concert by the stereophonics in an arena and part of. At the time, there was a sense

that the government had things in hand. But now, Britain has the highest death rate of any major

country, and that early support has turned to anger and distrust. Britain's done very badly

in this pandemic. Emma Duncan is the economist's Britain editor.

Britain's are kind of irritating for us, straighted, to see pictures from mainland Europe of people

in cafes and restaurants. And here, people are pretty much still confined to their houses,

as far as entertainment goes. Nonessential shopping is just resuming.

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