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🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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As rows continue in Europe over the safety and supply of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid 19 Vaccine, on Business Weekly we ask how much of the argument is over genuine safety concerns and how much is political? We also take a look at the pandemic within a pandemic: obesity. It’s the second highest risk factor for Covid mortality. But, how much of the blame should lie at the door of the food industry? Will a renewed focus on health change what we eat and drink? Plus, governments around the world are trying to build back better and greener from the Coronavirus pandemic. We have a special report on the steel industry, which is being pressured to become more environmentally friendly. And the Oscars are #notsowhite this year – we take a look at the nominees. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.

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0:00.0	Hello, you're with Business Weekly. I'm Lucy Burton. Welcome to the show. This week, we're going to be looking at the row over COVID-19 vaccine safety and supply. It's got European states arguing and threatening emergency controls in order to deal with the crisis of the century.
0:25.7	Are the concerns that the AstraZeneca jab causes blood clots legitimate or political?
0:30.6	And given that reports suggest COVID mortality rates are fuelled by obesity,
0:34.0	are we about to see a reckoning for the food and drink industry?
0:38.3	And later in the program, we'll be looking at the dark world of online trolling and how it's got much worse during the pandemic. First, though, large parts of Europe are
0:44.5	beginning to see another wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Cases arising quickly in Poland and Italy,
0:51.1	and restrictions have been tightened. France and Germany are also seeing more infections.
0:56.5	Marco de Raggio is a baker from Milan. He described the situation in Italy as all non-essential
1:01.8	businesses have been asked to close once more. I feel very frustrated because you work for
1:07.9	years and years, in my case was 20 years, and you find one day that all the business model doesn't work anymore.
1:17.7	So the feeling is frustration. I mean, you cannot do anything. But at the same time, I have to say that it is like it heat that must awake you.
1:28.3	You have to start again and you have to find a new way, a new business model.
1:33.3	But I don't believe anymore that the business model is based on big spaces where a lot of people go to it.
1:42.3	Because as you see, and even in the UK, in USA, etc., people use now to use a lot of
1:50.1	the delivery. I don't believe that this daily business, food retailer will make the same
1:58.4	business of before. And this comes as concerns have been raised in Europe
2:02.7	over the safety of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine,
2:06.1	at least half a dozen countries suspended its use
2:08.6	after a small number of people developed blood clots.
2:11.9	Jensparn is Germany's health minister.
2:14.2	He explains why his government decided to suspend the AstraZeneca jab.
2:22.2	Today's decision is a purely precautionary measure. Millions of AstraZeneca vaccinations have been
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