1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
Politics

Corona-Virus: Out of Control?

26:06

This browser does not support the video element.

March 12, 2020

COVID-19 is causing fear around the world. Thousands have already died. Entire countries are under lockdown. The outbreak could trigger a global recession. What can be done to combat the virus? Our guests: Wiebke Hollersen (Die Welt), Malte Lehming (Tagesspiegel), Ariane Reimers (ARD)

Image: DW

 

Wiebke Hollersen, who’s written extensively on the Corona virus for the Berlin-based daily Die Welt. She says: “We don’t have to worry about controlling our fear right now - we have to worry about controlling the spread of this virus.”

 

Image: DW

Ariane Reimers, a correspondent for Germany‘s ARD network, where she’s a specialist on German domestic politics and China, a country she knows very well. And Ariane believes that: “First China needed help, now China is helping others.”

 

Image: DW

 

Malte Lehming works for the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and he says: "After the 9/11 terror attacks and the 2008 financial crisis, this is the third major upheaval of this century."

 

 

Skip next section DW's Top Story

DW's Top Story

Skip next section More stories from DW

More stories from DW