Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The UK has said it will impose strict restrictions on people travelling to the country in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19. Travellers from a list of countries deemed 'high risk’ will be put into hotels to quarantine. It’s a scheme used in Australia, where cases are now low. On Business Weekly, we hear how the economy there was able to open up after the first wave of infections. We get the latest on the farmers’ protest in India after this week’s rally turned violent. The end of the Google Loon project means very little in practical terms to people in rural Africa who need internet access. It never managed to deliver on its promise to connect up more of the continent. So, what’s next? Will Elon Musk’s Starlink project be the answer? And the director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo tells us how he had to protect the area from exploitative companies as well as armed militias. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. |
| 0:08.5 | Over the next hour, we'll get the latest from India, where protests against farming reforms |
| 0:13.7 | have turned violent. We'll also take you to the Varunga National Park in the Democratic Republic |
| 0:19.1 | of the Congo. It's home to some of the last |
| 0:22.0 | mounting guerrillas on earth and the race to keep the park free of militia, as well as companies |
| 0:27.4 | wanting to exploit its natural resources, is on. First, though, it's been exactly a year since |
| 0:33.6 | the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. |
| 0:40.5 | Cases and deaths continue to rise across the world. Over 100 million people have had the virus |
| 0:46.2 | and over 2 million have died from it. Here in the UK, it was announced this week that 100,000 people |
| 0:52.8 | have died. It's hard to get your head around these kind of numbers, |
| 0:57.0 | each of them far more than a statistic, |
| 0:59.4 | but someone who has loved and cherished. |
| 1:01.5 | As the UK enters its third week of a third lockdown, |
| 1:05.0 | the Prime Minister has announced that the UK has closed its doors |
| 1:08.3 | to countries where new strains of the disease has been found, |
| 1:11.3 | like Brazil and South Africa. Some, but not all, are the international travellers, will have |
| 1:17.0 | to be quarantined in hotels for 10 days. Here's the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson |
| 1:21.5 | announcing the move in the House of Commons. We have also banned all travel from 22 countries |
| 1:26.4 | where there is a risk of known variants, |
| 1:28.7 | including South Africa, Portugal and South American nations. |
| 1:34.2 | And in order to reduce the risk posed by UK nationals and residents returning home from these countries, |
| 1:41.8 | I can announce that we will require all such arrivals who cannot be |
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