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Volume 434 Number 9187

Asia

53 Japan, the Olympics and

covid-

54 Politics in Bangladesh

54 Sexual abuse in South

Korea

55 BanyanTaiwan and

covid-

56 Locking down India and

Pakistan

China

57 Going back to work

59 ChaguanOpportunity

amid crisis

International

60 Treating covid-

61 The dash to ventilate

Business

63 Corporate top dogs

64 Essential shopping

64 HR chiefs to the barricades

66 Bartleby is working

remotely

67 Distributed companies

70 Schumpeter Unilever’s

home front

Finance & economics

71 Global trade collapses

72 The mortgage market

sickens

72 Doling out greenbacks

73 The ECB’s latest salvo

73 America steps into the

oil market

74 Buttonwood Special

situations

75 Free exchangePaying for

the pandemic

Science & technology

76 Covid-19 and the climate

77 Covid-19 and pollution

78 Detecting body heat

Books & arts

79 Disease and democracy

in Athens

80 Art on the internet

81 The Italian Renaissance

82 Bulgakov’s scourge

82 Emily St John Mandel’s

new novel

Economic & financial indicators

84 Statistics on 42 economies

Graphic detail

85 The northern-hemisphere winter that wasn’t

Obituary

86 Michel Roux, the restaurateur who changed Britain