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Coronavirus: Europe's Mixed Response / Fukushima Nine Years On
2020-03-10
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Italy is in lockdown, but in The Netherlands there is a strangely calm response to growing rates of coronavirus infection. Naomi O'Leary on Europe's mixed response to the outbreak.
It is nine years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This summer, part of Japan's motive for hosting the Olympic Games is to demonstrate how it has got to grips with the catastrophe, even reopening restricted areas so the Olympic Torch can pass through. But is such a display what the people of those devastated areas want? And what effect could coronavirus have on the "Recovery Games"?
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