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Hi, you're listening to Pandemic, a new podcast from RTE News and Current Affairs on the COVID-19 crisis.

I'm Cullam Ongoing and most days of the week I'll be talking to RTE's correspondence, reporters and others to bring you news, updates and analysis you can trust.

We can guarantee you a high quality of information.

The sound quality, on the other hand, might vary somewhat sometimes,

as correspondents and I will be recording this in many cases on mobile devices from home,

so please do bear with us.

It's Tuesday, March 31st.

We have a bit of a packed episode today. I've been talking to Ortiz Health correspondent, Fergal Bowers, about intensive care admissions and the North-South approach

to a virus that respects no border. Also, our Europe editor, Tony Connolly, has been telling me about

the tensions the pandemic is causing within the Eurozone. He's also been talking to Ilva Johansen,

the EU Home Affairs Commissioner. But before we get to that, let's get a snapshot of the global

picture from Ortiz's Foreign Desks, Killian Sherlock. Hi, Killion, how are you today? I'm all right,

getting used to this work from home now yourself? Yeah, pretty much the same, all right. So the global picture, let's start with the overall figure in the world today.

Yeah, so we're now seeing, and this is a major landmark, I suppose, is we're now seeing

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