Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As the global Covid-19 vaccination drive slowly gathers pace - on Business Weekly we’ll be looking at whether vaccine passports will help us return to life as we once knew it. While the travel industry is keen to use them, scientists warn that not only will they not work properly but they could pose serious ethical dilemmas. We’ll also hear from the people scooping facemasks out of the ocean - who are warning that Covid-19 has caused a pandemic of plastic waste. In the effort to save the planet from climate change, US President Joe Biden has promised to reduce the US’s carbon emissions. We’ll hear from the American coal workers who are worried for their jobs. Also, the pandemic has thrown the global wedding industry into disarray. We’ll meet the couples who got married during the pandemic in really quite extraordinary circumstances. And we’ll look at the history of hairstyles in the workplace.
Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Szu Ping Chan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly. I'm Lucy Burton. |
| 0:09.1 | This week, as new cases of COVID-19 dropped for the sixth week across the world, many governments are now trying to plan an exit from lockdown. |
| 0:18.6 | In a moment, we'll find out how vaccine passports might play a part in that. |
| 0:23.5 | We'll also hear from coal workers in the US who are worried about their jobs now that President |
| 0:28.3 | Joe Biden is pursuing a green agenda to fight climate change. And the course of true love in the time |
| 0:35.4 | of COVID has not run smooth for many. |
| 0:38.6 | Wedding plans had to be radically altered when the virus hit. |
| 0:42.3 | So will couples be racing back down the aisle this year? |
| 0:45.6 | And what does this mean for the businesses who help them? |
| 0:48.3 | That's coming up later. |
| 0:50.4 | Over 216 million doses of COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered worldwide. |
| 0:57.3 | This only equates to half a percent of the global population. |
| 1:01.2 | But as more people are given some protection against the disease, |
| 1:04.5 | governments are desperate to find a way to get life back to something that looks a little bit more like normal. |
| 1:10.2 | One way they might do this is to introduce |
| 1:12.4 | vaccine passports. The World Health Organisation has trialled an electronic version of a vaccine |
| 1:18.3 | passport in Estonia. And the Swedes are hoping that they too could use them as some way of |
| 1:24.4 | travelling between different countries. Here's Anders-Yagerman, the Swedish Minister for Energy and Digital Development. |
| 1:31.2 | I think most countries hope that we will be able to push back COVID-19 |
| 1:36.4 | and that we will slowly go back to our normal way of travelling and meeting other people. |
| 1:43.3 | But when we do that transition, I think that vaccine |
| 1:47.5 | certificates or vaccine passports could be one important measure to be able to travel between |
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