Coronavirus has been given a new name by the scientists trying to defeat it. In today’s podcast, we talk to Evening Standard deputy political editor Nicholas Cecil about why the World Health Organisation has decided to re-label the disease as ‘Covid-19’. We also look at the steps being taken by London Fashion Week after hundreds of Chinese buyers, stylists and models pulled out of Friday’s launch over fears about the virus.

Bernie’s Bump in New Hampshire

And US Correspondent David Gardner analyses the results of the Democratic Party’s New Hampshire Primary. Bernie Sanders won a narrow victory and now hopes to gather enough momentum to propel him into the Presidential race, and eventually the White House. But is former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who didn’t take part last night, quietly becoming a serious challenger? 

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