Wuhan coronavirus and SARS: Lessons learnt?
Asia Matters Podcast
English - February 03, 2020 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPolitics News Government asia politics geopolitics government china japan india korea history news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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There's only been one story in the region over the last few weeks: the coronavirus and its spread from Wuhan to the rest of China, then Asia, now the world. There's still a lot we don't know about the virus itself; and even analysis of its handling by the Chinese authorities seems premature.
Instead, this week we're looking back into the past, to see what if anything we can learn from previous epidemics in China. Our guest this week is Professor Sian Griffiths, who co-chaired Hong Kong’s enquiry into the SARS epidemic in 2003.
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