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Unmasking India and Indonesia’s COVID-19 challenges 8 June 2020 Author: Raina MacIntyre, UNSW COVID-19’s unprecedented health, economic, social and geopolitical impacts are still unfolding. It is often compared to the 1918 Spanish flu because both pandemics have similar fatality rates, but the world has become much more dependent on global supply chains, travel and trade. Tackling a highly infectious disease requires global disease control. Governments cannot neatly segregate populations and selectively apply epidemic control measures. Singapore learned this lesson with a resurgence of cases in migrant worker dormitories. Poor control of infection in any part of a society will affect...
