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.

Big oil and gas firms have fast experience with complex, expensive cross-border infrastructure

projects. That's just the kind of expertise the world needs as it transitions to renewables

in order to survive, oil majors need to put those skills to use.

And winters in Mongolia are no walk in the park, but extreme winters that follow dry

summers have catastrophic effects on livestock and on the herders who depend on them. Those

climate conditions are getting more and more frequent.

But first, the coronavirus continues to spread around the world and has now been found

in every mainland province in China. Infections have been found in at least 15 other countries,

and all there are already more cases than there were in the 2002 outbreak of the related

SARS virus, and international responses are ramping up. This morning, Russia's prime

minister said the country would be closing its border with China. Authorities in Australia

and Britain have quarantined returning travelers and British airways and other airlines

have canceled flights altogether into and out of China. Today, the World Health Organization

will meet to discuss whether the outbreak constitutes a global health emergency. In any

case, it's certainly a national one. So where I am in China, we have had 38 more deaths

and had today. So we're now to 170 dead. David Renny is our Beijing Bureau Chief and

has been visiting villages on the edge of Hu Bay, the province which is the epicenter

of the outbreak. We have 7,700 cases worldwide, which almost all of them are here in China,

but they are also being found now in more than a dozen countries. Mostly people traveling

from China while thick and turning up in those countries. We have evacuation flights going

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