Without a trace: Israel’s covid-19 spike
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has gone from boasting about progress to battling protests as the country’s contact-tracing programme has been overwhelmed. Early and extreme seasonal floods in China have already displaced nearly 2m people, raising questions about the country’s grand river-management promises. And the boom in bedtime stories...for adults.
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| 0:59.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:05.1 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:12.9 | In China, seasonal floods have come early and in abundance, |
| 1:17.7 | wiping out crops and tens of thousands of homes and displacing millions of people. |
| 1:22.8 | Our correspondent visits a town that is, for now, anyway, on an island in the middle of the Yangtze River. |
| 1:29.3 | And you're getting very, very sleepy, or maybe not. |
| 1:34.3 | The pandemic is causing a lot of lost shut-eye, so people are increasingly turning to bedtime stories for adults. |
| 1:42.3 | Why not drift off to the tones of Matthew McConaughey, |
| 1:45.0 | Stephen Fry or John McEnroe. |
| 1:47.0 | But first... |
| 1:50.0 | Earlier this year, Israel seemed to have marshalled one of the most effective responses to COVID-19. |
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