The Economist A special edition on the coronavirus pandemic

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From: The Economist this week - Saturday Jul 11, 2020 11:12 am
   
July 11th 2020 Read in browser
   
  The Economist this week  
 
  Our coverage of the new coronavirus  
   
 
     
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  Welcome to the newsletter highlighting The Economist’s best writing on the pandemic. Our cover this week argues that a set of illiberal ideas about how to tackle American racism will only hinder progress. Leaders like Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King used vigorous protest to push society towards their vision of equality of opportunity and equality before the law. Most Americans still hew to that classical liberal ideal. But a dangerous rival approach has emerged from American universities. It defines everyone by their race, and every action as racist or anti-racist. If it supplants Enlightenment liberalism, then intimidation will chill open debate and sow division to the disadvantage of all, black and white.

Our coverage of the pandemic in this issue ranges from the disease to its implications. We look at covid-19 in India—a mixed picture, but a mostly bleak one. Things are a lot better in the Buddhist countries of Indochina. We take the temperature of rich-word economies and examine how China has used civil-society groups to help during the covid-19 crisis. We report from Australia, as Melbourne suffers a second wave, and we offer some friendly advice to all those amateur bakers and barbers inspired by lockdown. It’s time to stop. Really. For everyone’s sake.

 Our mortality tracker uses the gap between the total number of people who have died from any cause and the historical average for the time of year to estimate how many deaths from the virus the official statistics are failing to pick up.

We have also been focusing on the pandemic in Economist Radio and Economist Films. This week we have a film on how covid-19 has devastated global travel. As the industry recovers from the effects of the pandemic, tourism will become increasingly localised and complicated.

This week saw covid-19 strike a local ruler in South Africa, the prime minister of Ivory Coast and the presidents of Brazil and Bolivia. They will not be the last leaders to contract the disease.

I hope you enjoy our coverage. 		 
 
  Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief  
     
 
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Covid-19 in India
Flattening the wrong curve

Infections are soaring, but increased testing may help
Asia
 
 
 
Banyan
Wai-five

As far as the pandemic is concerned, South-East Asia’s Buddhist lands seem blessed
Asia
 
 
 
The global economy
How to feel better

Some economies are recovering speedily—but our analysis shows just how fragile consumer confidence can be
Finance & economics
 
 
 
Civil society
Who you gonna call?

Non-governmental organisations have helped the state provide covid-related relief. That will not earn them more freedom
China
 
 
 
Australia and covid-19
Lock, unlock, repeat

Melbourne, the country’s second city, battens down the hatches again
Asia
 
 
 
Sourdough economics
The need to knead

With lockdown easing in many parts of the world, the time has come to say no to dough
Leaders
 
 
 
Covid-19
Why travel will never be the same

Covid-19 has devastated global travel and—as the industry recovers from the effects of the pandemic—tourism will be increasingly localised and complicated. This won’t just affect foreign holidays; it could disrupt the workings of the globalised world
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Meet the editor-in-chief

In our next free webinar, exclusively for subscribers, Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, will talk about our coverage of covid-19 and what to expect in the approach to America’s presidential election. Thursday July 16th, 4pm BST / 11am EDT.
 
 
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