The language of a lockdown

From quarantine crisis to unprecedented panic, the news is full of alarming new words and phrases. Matt Chorley speaks to Julia Samuel, a psychotherapist, about the effect of bad news on us all, while The Times' Ian Brunskill and Daniel Clark describe the impact on the way the paper reports.

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