Reporting on coronavirus: 'fear is almost as great a threat as the disease'

Writers from China, Italy and the UK explain how we are cooperating to produce measured reporting on a global crisis

I have overseen our coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in China, from when there were just a few cases of "unknown pneumonia" in Wuhan in December to the lockdown of Wuhan and other cities in late January, and most recently as Beijing has begun to declare victory over the virus, which has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people and infected more than 80,000here.