Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Business Weekly, we look at the use of vaccine passports in the tourism and hospitality industries. Owning a 'pass sanitaire' is now compulsory to visit certain sites in France and nightclubs in the UK have been told they can only admit people who’ve been double-jabbed come September. We also have a special report on the Champlain Tower in Miami, where nearly a hundred people died last month when the building collapsed. What lessons should be learned? And Jeff Bezos blasted into space this week, hot on the heels of fellow billionaire supersonic joyrider Richard Branson. We’ll ask why. Business Weekly is produced by Matthew Davies and presented by Lucy Burton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a very warm welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. |
| 0:09.4 | In just a moment, we'll be looking at the use of vaccine passports in the tourism and hospitality industries. |
| 0:15.7 | Nightclubs in the UK have been told they can only admit people who've been jabbed come September. |
| 0:21.0 | We'll also have a special report on the Champlain Tower in Miami, |
| 0:25.1 | where nearly 100 people died last month when the building collapsed. |
| 0:28.8 | What lessons should be learned? |
| 0:31.3 | And Jeff Bezos blasted into space, hot on the heels of fellow billionaire supersonic joyrider |
| 0:36.8 | Richard Branson. We'll ask why. |
| 0:39.4 | First, the number of global COVID-19 cases grew 12% last week as the Delta variant continues |
| 0:45.3 | its tentacle-like spread across the world. But governments are still trying to work out how to get |
| 0:50.5 | life back to normal. In developed countries with advanced vaccination programs, |
| 0:55.5 | vaccination passports are under consideration. If you want to visit the Eiffel Tower or a museum |
| 1:01.1 | or gallery in France, you won't just need a ticket, but a past sanitaire as well. You'll have to |
| 1:06.7 | prove you're fully vaccinated, COVID-negative or recently recovered from the virus. |
| 1:12.1 | And thanks to the increase in Delta cases, the government there says this could be extended |
| 1:16.3 | to a range of other venues. Some people aren't all that happy about it. |
| 1:24.5 | More than 100,000 people attended nationwide rallies last week, saying the pass infringes on their liberties. |
| 1:31.8 | Business people aren't fully convinced about them either. |
| 1:34.9 | Regis Favre is executive chef at Les De Meuse du Ché bistro in Paris. |
| 1:40.0 | The big Michelin-starred restaurants can employ someone just to carry out the controls, but for small bistros like ours? |
| 1:50.2 | It means one person short on the floor. Do we have the authority to carry out controls and ask for ID cards? |
| 1:57.8 | And how will people take it if they are refused? Will some of them be violent, |
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