Coronavirus Morning News Brief – June 20: How Pandemics Influence City Planning, Macau Closes Shops and Businesses


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Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 802nd day of the pandemic At the onset of the Spanish Flu on the television program Downton Abbey, Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, commented: “Wasn’t there a masked ball in Paris when cholera broke out? Half the guests were dead before they left the ballroom.” Her son, Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, replied rather sarcastically: “Thank you, Mama. That’s cheered us up no end.” In truth, the cholera pandemic of 1826-1837, which hit France in 1832, brought about many changes...