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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: How the Coronavirus is Impacting the Inner Workings of the United Nations with Margaret Besheer
Description: The coronavirus pandemic is impacting institutions around the world, including the United Nations. In fact, about an hour after I recorded this episode, the Philippines Mission said to the United Nations that one of its diplomats, who had been at meetings in UN Headquarters in New York, tested positive for COVID-19. In this episode, I speak with Margaret Besheer, the UN correspondent for Voice of America. She helps me understand how the coronavirus is impacting the work and life of the United Nations.  We start by discussing the work of the World Health Organization before ha...