With the Australian state of Victoria in a stringent lockdown including a nightly curfew, to try to reduce its still high numbers of new coronavirus cases each day, this is the first of a trilogy of podcasts to focus on detailed epidemiological information about the VIRUS, the PANDEMIC and the global RESPONSE. Our expert guide is Professor John Potter, Australian born but now based in Nelson, New Zealand. John is well across the science of this virus and keeps a close eye on the streams of new research papers pouring out of medical science centres around the world. Inevitably, general and specialist journalism covering the pandemic is somewhat fragmented and disjointed over time. And the experience of being in lockdown distorts our sense of time anyway. So this trilogy is our #transitzone attempt to bring some cohe ...