When to deconfine? Competing necessities, rival interests

THE WORLD THIS WEEK
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As Spain, Germany and France eye a gradual deconfinement, The World This Week looks at the drastic contact tracing steps that have kept South Korea open for business since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Will the West go for an army of monitors and digital tracking apps? Also, Brazil's president shrugs off his country's spiralling death toll, China's Lego messaging targets the US and Europe, plus Kim Jong Un's continued absence from the public eye and Belgium's call on citizens to do their patriotic duty... and serve themselves an extra portion of frites.

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