The Economist: Covid-19.

Our cover this week looks at how governments should prepare for the spread of covid-19. The pandemic threatens an economic crisis as well as a health crisis and both will need fixing. The disease is in 85 countries and territories, up from 50 a week ago. More than 95,000 cases and 3,200 deaths have been recorded. Yet our own analysis, based on patterns of travel to and from China, suggests that many countries which have spotted tens of cases have hundreds more circulating undetected. Iran, South Korea and Italy are exporting the virus. Now that America has begun looking, it is sure to find scores of infections—and possibly unearth a runaway epidemic. Wherever the virus takes hold, containing it and mitigating its effects will involve more than doctors and paramedics. A concerted effort is needed across the government, especially over how to protect people and companies as supply chains fracture and the worried and the ill shut themselves away. Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-In-Chief https://www.economist.com/