Summary
In Africa, malaria is far more widespread than Covid-19 - so what would it mean to African economies if it was eliminated? We speak to the man whose team in Oxford devloped an effective vaccine for the disease. Mice have overrun parts of Australia ruining crops and testing sanity. We learn about the effect this plague of rodents is having on the rural economy. We hear why Amazon has bought the iconic MGM Studios - and what it means for both Amazon customers and cinema lovers. Plus, our reporter heads to San Francisco to hear how the city’s Chinatown has coped with both Covid-19 and an increase in anti-Chinese race hate crime. As shops are boarded up and tourists stay away, what plans are there to rejuvenate this historic area? Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this edition of Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. |
| 0:09.0 | In the show today, we'll be in Chinatown in San Francisco. |
| 0:13.5 | It's the oldest and largest Chinatown in North America. |
| 0:17.4 | But over the last year, it's had to contend with both the pandemic itself, as well as anti-Asian attacks. |
| 0:24.2 | We'll ask how this historic area will recover. |
| 0:27.7 | We'll also hear why Amazon has set its sights on Hollywood as it buys out the iconic MGM studio. |
| 0:35.2 | Prime customers will get access to all those films heralded by the Roaring Lion. But what does MGM studio. Prime customers will get access to all those films heralded by the roaring lion. |
| 0:40.5 | But what does MGM get in return? And the summer holidays are back on, for some people at least. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll hear from hospitality workers in Spain who are keen to sell their country as a global |
| 0:51.6 | holiday hotspot once again. First though, as the world continues to grapple with COVID and the threat of mutant |
| 0:59.1 | strains and shaky vaccine supply, it's easy to forget about other diseases, like the one |
| 1:05.3 | that's been killing over 500,000 people a year for decades. |
| 1:09.8 | Malaria. |
| 1:14.5 | The human and financial loss wrought by the disease is vast. So, now that an effective vaccine is on the horizon, what will that mean for the country's |
| 1:22.1 | most blighted? Manuel Seragossa has been speaking to the man behind the vaccine, as well as economists in Africa, |
| 1:29.6 | who say that malaria has held the continent back. |
| 1:32.7 | Oh, it was, when you're really ill with malaria, then you feel very bad. |
| 1:38.1 | You know, I was so tired. I couldn't do anything. I was actually vomiting that time. |
| 1:46.2 | And everybody around you is panicking because they don't know whether you're going to survive. Our mothers are panicking. Our fathers are panicking. |
| 1:50.2 | Professor Obina-on-wogeque in Nigeria, remembering the time he was hospitalized with malaria |
| 1:55.7 | when he was nine years old. It wasn't the only time he caught the disease. Malaria infected well over 200 million |
| 2:02.8 | people last year and killed almost half a million, most of them children. But in Nigeria, people have |
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