Coronavirus: How do you suppress COVID-19 but prevent economic disaster?
Wednesday 23 September 2020 21:31, UK
Less than a day after Boris Johnson addressed the nation with a new set of restrictions, the UK reported its highest number of coronavirus cases since May.
In order to decide exactly which measures to use, the government had to weigh up factors - crucially, how to suppress the virus but also stop the UK from falling into an economic crisis.
In this episode, Sophy Ridge discussed this with GP and health campaigner Dr Louise Irvine, and Alfie Stirling, the director of research & chief economist at the New Economic Foundation.
Sky’s economic editor Ed Conway also joins us to analyse the statistics and talk about what lies ahead.
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