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China's coronavirus victory might be short-lived

11 March 2020

3:57 AM

11 March 2020

3:57 AM

I’ve just been talking to a Government official about ‘how the market is being sounded out’ about the cost and availability of ‘mobile morgues’. It is obvious this sort of contingency planning – emergency procurement of industrial refrigeration, in essence – is sensible and necessary, given reasonable worst case scenario estimates that additional deaths stemming from Covid-19 would run to several hundred thousand.

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Robert Peston is ITV’s political editor. This article originally appeared on his ITV news blog


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