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How should governments respond to coronavirus?

We look at the best response to coronavirus as experts warn global growth could halve. Peter Oppenheimer is chief global equity strategist for US investment bank Goldman Sachs, and discusses the bank's warning that the virus could push the world's most powerful economy into recession. Stefanie Glinski is a freelance journalist in the Afghan capital Kabul, and tells us about her reporting from Herat close to Iran, where an outbreak of the illness is well under way. Thomas Gilbert is a professor of business economics at the University of Washington in Seattle, and considers what lessons history teaches us about containing the impact of health crises like this. And following an announcement from Hong Kong that seven million people aged over 18 would receive a payment of the equivalent of $1,300 US, US economist Megan Greene at Harvard Kennedy School of Government considers whether such an approach could be employed elsewhere to stimulate economic demand. Also in the programme, our reporter in Mexico explores the lives of migrants who have been removed to the country following an attempt to enter the US illegally. Plus, our regular workplace commentator Alison Green looks at what employees can do when they're stuck in a job that they hate.

(Picture: A woman has her temperature taken. Picture credit: Getty Images.)