Coronavirus: The challenge of trading off health and economic security

Like any country, Italy cannot keep its economy shut indefinitely. But the virus hasn’t been defeated, only contained, so what happens next? Ferdinando Giugliano reports
Coronavirus: The challenge of trading off health and economic security
Don Marcello Crotti blesses the coffins with Don Mario Carminati in the San Giuseppe church in Seriate. Restrictions are due to end on Friday but what happens next? Picture: AP Photo
Wed, 01 Apr, 2020 - 00:00
Ferdinando Giugliano

Like any country, Italy cannot keep its economy shut indefinitely. But the virus hasn’t been defeated, only contained, so what happens next? Ferdinando Giugliano reports

Among western nations, Italy has been the canary in the mine of the Covid-19 epidemic.

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