Coronomics: how businesses are navigating their way out of the pandemic

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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With post-Covid life a bit closer for some countries around the world than others, this week's panel takes a look at how businesses are navigating their way out of the pandemic. Jennifer Creery, Managing Editor of the Hong Kong Free Press, takes a look at the government bailout to Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's airline; Peter Griffin, a science and tech journalist based in New Zealand, talks about balancing contact tracing with the demands of reopening businesses; while Cindy Yu, the Spectator's Broadcast Editor, kicks off the episode by taking a look at China's candidates in the vaccine race.

Coronomics is a series of podcasts taking a look at how coronavirus has turned the world upside down, with an international panel each week. Presented by Kate Andrews. Click here for previous episodes.

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0:00.0	The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher.
0:26.9	Hello and welcome to Coronomics, the Spectator series on stories from countries turned upside down by COVID-19.
0:39.1	I'm Kate Andrews.
0:44.4	Today's podcast features our panel, based around the world, who have selected a story that gives you an inside look at what's happening outside their windows. Peter Griffin is reporting
0:49.4	from New Zealand and a science commentator for the New Zealand Herald. Cindy Yu is the spectator's broadcast editor based in the UK and reporting on China.
0:58.8	And later in the podcast, we're joined by Jennifer Creary, reporting from Hong Kong and managing editor of the Hong Kong Free Press.
1:06.1	So Cindy and Peter, a big welcome to you.
1:08.8	Cindy, let's start with your article this week, which is in Bloomberg,
1:12.6	about a potential vaccine on the way. Now, if it proves correct and the vaccine really has
1:20.1	potential to work, this could not just be good news for China, but for the rest of the world. Tell us
1:25.1	about it. Yeah, so my article is from Bloomberg talks about
1:28.5	SinoVAC, which is one of the five vaccine candidates that is going on in China and getting into
1:34.9	pretty mature stages of the vaccine development now. Sinovac has just recently signed a deal with a Brazilian
1:41.1	company in order to test their vaccine in a final phase in Brazil.
1:45.4	Obviously, as we know from the Oxford study here in the UK, you need to test this final
1:50.8	phase where there's a lot of community transmission. In China, it doesn't exist anymore,
1:55.4	although there are huge questions over this past weekend over whether or not we're seeing the
1:59.1	beginnings of a second wave in Beijing.
2:05.8	But in terms of community transit transmission, Cynovac is going to Brazil next month.
2:10.9	So far, in the previous trials, it's been going well. If it passes this next phase,
2:14.4	it thinks that it can be rolling out vaccines by the end of the year.
2:19.9	But I just thought it was a very interesting development and brings to light some of the tensions and pressures on the Chinese government to get this vaccine going.
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