Lessons from a lockdown lifted, while Trump stops WHO payments

<p>As Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/government-under-mounting-pressure-to-outline-coronavirus-lockdown-exit-strategy-a4414466.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">calls for the UK government to reveal a lockdown exit strategy</a>, the podcast looks at one country already lifting some restrictions. In Denmark, children up to the age of 11 are returning to school after a month out of the classrooms. The country was one of the first in Europe to impose self-isolation and boasts one of the lowest infection rates on the continent. <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/evening-standard-comment-lockdown-must-go-on-as-keir-starmer-asks-what-s-next-building-for-the-a4414926.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">But is it moving too fast?</a> We speak to Aarhus University’s Ida Wentzel Winther, who has been studying the effects of the lockdown on families.</p><br><p>Donald Trump, himself beleaguered by criticism for his response to the coronavirus pandemic, <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/donald-trump-world-health-organisation-funding-coronavirus-a4414961.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">has announced the US will cease payments to the World Health Organisation</a>. The president said the international body - to which the US pays around $400m per year - had mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic, and accused it of a ‘cover up’.&nbsp;The Evening Standard’s US correspondent David Gardner joins The Leader podcast to explain why the&nbsp;president’s&nbsp;actions are&nbsp;‘classic Donald Trump’ - and what it means for the international effort to fight Covid-19.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>