The Coronavirus (COVID-19) began in the Chinese industrial city of Wuhan in December. It has brought the Chinese industrial juggernaut to a virtual standstill. Schools have been closed, public transport systems have been halted and several business enterprises have remained shut down. 

A belief that the industrial economy is doomed to produce an intolerably unequal society.

As the deadly strain of coronavirus continues to accelerate its spread, the political impact of a likely pandemic is now a hot topic for commentators. Niall Ferguson, the British historian based at Stanford’s Hoover Institution in California, argues that Donald Trump could well be swept out of office by coronavirus (Covid-19) and replaced by Bernie Sanders, who advocates free state-run healthcare.

The world economy may be heading for its worst performance since the financial crisis more than a decade ago as the spread of the coronavirus increasingly dashes hopes of a swift rebound.