Governance in A Pandemic

Less than five hours after the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered what was being called an emergency coronavirus Budget yesterday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic. A global pandemic is declared when a new disease for which people do not have immunity spreads around the world. The UK government is convening a second meeting of Cobra, its emergency committee today, and it is expected to announce that it is stepping up its response to the coronavirus while other countries also take action.