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.

Ireland is still forming a government.

We look into what this week's coalition proposal would mean

for the two parties that have traded leadership for nearly a century,

and for Sinn Féin, the Irish nationalist party that played a spoiler role in February's election.

And, world-class chess players tend to start young and rise fast,

but a nine-year-old Nigerian refugee named Tanatilua Aduumi wants to world-class chess players tend to start young and rise fast.

But a nine-year-old Nigerian refugee named Tanatilua Aduumi wants to be the youngest grandmaster of the game ever.

At the rate he's going, he will be.

First up, though.

In America, new coronavirus infections have been remaining relatively steady for the past month,

averaging around 22,000 cases per day. But those numbers mask a geographic change in the way the pandemic is hitting the country. In the early days, outbreaks were concentrated in the Northeast and the Midwest,

hitting Democratic states especially hard.

New York City is a hot zone for the virus right now.

But now, the virus has started to change course.

An increasing number of infections

are being reported in Republican states,

like Arizona, Texas,

and Oklahoma, where President Trump

is planning to stage an indoor rally on Saturday.

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