Governments are working to protect their own populations first. But they risk potentially dire consequences in doing so, says Erik Berglöf

WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said that Europe is now “the epicentre of the pandemic”.

The World Health Organisation has declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic.

Even the world’s top infectious-disease specialists still aren’t sure how lethal a threat the coronavirus presents.