It is also true that the global air transport system has helped the rapid spread of this disease - as well as the slow response by some governments to realise the scale of the crisis they are facing. Only a decade ago, international point-to-point connections to secondary cities like Wuhan in China would have been few and far between and would have slowed the initial spread. A side effect of globalisation and the travel of people and goods is the ease in which other actors, such as terrorism and disease, can also quickly spread.
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