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How the UK is managing the coronavirus crisis

4/14/2020, 4:19:13 PM


PODCAST. While the coronavirus has killed more than 12,000 people in the UK, the British have been confined to their homes since March 23. Rec

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Summary :

"I was in the hospital last night and I shook hands with everyone, even patients with coronavirus! And I will continue to do so, ”says Boris Johnson on March 3 at a press conference. The British Prime Minister does not wish to panic and calls on his fellow citizens to do the same. Two days later, we learn that the coronavirus has made its first victim on British soil. The number of cases is increasing daily, but Boris Johnson is staying the course. He refuses to confine the population and intends to bet on "group immunity", before turning around, and to be hospitalized himself after being declared positive for Covid-19.

Today, Source Code goes back in time with Marion L'Hour, correspondent for the Parisian in London, to understand how the British authorities have managed the coronavirus crisis in the United Kingdom.

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Editorial management: Pierre Chausse - Editor-in-chief: Jules Lavie - Reporter: Clawdia Prolongeau - Production: Thibault Lambert and Raphaël Pueyo - Production and mixing: Alexandre Ferreira - Music: François Clos, Audio Network - Graphic identity: Upian. Archives: France 24, Euronews, BBC, Al Jazeera, BFM TV, RMC, Evening Standard, France 2, ITN.

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