12 April 2020 - Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken to dozens of experts about COVID-19, and there’s clear evidence that the disease does discriminate in a few ways: It kills the old more often than the young, men more often than women, and it disproportionately impacts the poor .

But here’s something I’ve seen no evidence of: COVID-19 discriminating on the basis of nationality. The virus doesn’t care about borders.

I mention this because since the world became aware of the virus early January, governments have focused on their own national responses. How can they protect the people living inside their borders? And that’s understandable. But with such an infectious and widespread virus, leaders must also recognise that so long as there is COVID-19 somewhere, it concerns people everywhere.

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