Global Intelligence Briefing March 13, 2020: Coronavirus management

By Chris Woods

March 13, 2020

Welcome to Global Intelligence Briefing, Mandarin Premium’s morning update on everything in local and global government responses to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Italy and Korea: comparing approaches

Reuters has published an in-depth comparison of Italy and South Korea’s differing strategies to tracking, addressing and containing the disease.

“Italy started out testing widely, then narrowed the focus so that now, the authorities don’t have to process hundreds of thousands of tests. But there’s a trade-off: They can’t see what’s coming and are trying to curb the movements of the country’s entire population of 60 million people to contain the disease.

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