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Coronavirus one year on: two countries that got it right, and three that got it wrong

By Darren Lilleker, Professor of Political Communication, Bournemouth University

On March 11 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 public health emergency had become a pandemic: 114 countries were affected, there were 121,500 confirmed cases and more than 4,000 people had succumbed to the virus.

One year on, we have now seen 115 million confirmed cases globally and more than 2.5 million deaths from COVID-19.…

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