Stumbling bloc: Europe’s second wave
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Across the continent, covid-19 cases are rising steeply and containment measures are still divergent. We look at the challenges of finding policies that are efficacious and sustainable. Tanzania’s election today is all but zipped up; President John Magufuli has been trampling the country’s hard-won democratic traditions. And what the florid language of wine experts says about human perception.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.7 | There's a presidential election in Tanzania today, and I'm going to go ahead and call it. |
| 0:22.7 | The incumbent John Magafouli will win. |
| 0:25.6 | We take a look at all the intimidation and hounding of the opposition that ensures the party in power since 1961 stays there. |
| 0:35.3 | And wine connoisseurs have a peculiarly rich vocabulary, calling out notes of wet leaves and pencil shavings. |
| 0:43.3 | Dig a bit deeper, though, and putting those descriptions to the test reveals much about whether language shapes perception. |
| 0:56.4 | First up, though. |
| 1:06.1 | Alarm is mounting as Europe battles a second wave of COVID-19. |
| 1:09.4 | Right now, we're well behind this virus in Europe. |
| 1:14.0 | On Monday, the World Health Organization gave a stark warning. So getting ahead of it is going to take some serious acceleration on what we do, |
| 1:18.3 | and much more comprehensive nature of measures that are going to be needed to catch up with |
| 1:23.2 | and get ahead of this virus. |
| 1:25.1 | The region now accounts for 46% of the world's cases and nearly a third |
| 1:29.9 | of its deaths. Even countries that seemed to have handled the pandemic deftly are posting |
| 1:35.2 | worrying numbers. Yesterday, Germany reported a record 15,000 cases. Later today, it's expected to |
| 1:42.8 | announce a raft of new restrictions, closing bars and banning public |
| 1:46.5 | gatherings. Across the continent, countries are once again resorting to blunt measures to stem the spread. |
| 1:52.5 | On Sunday, Spain issued a state of |
| 2:03.6 | On Sunday, Spain issued a state of emergency, |
| 2:06.6 | and Italy imposed a curfew on bars and restaurants. |
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