Coronavirus: global scenarios, research and impact

The latest episode of the Inside Geneva podcast looks at what the coronavirus mean for us, our society, our economy and our future.

Host Imogen Foulkes discusses the fallout from the global pandemic with Dr Margaret Harris of the World Health Organization and Professor Vinh-Kim Nguyen of the Centre on Global Health at Geneva’s Graduate Institute.

This content was published on April 9, 2020 - 16:37

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Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva for SWI swissinfo.ch as well as the BBC.

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