Third time’s the harm: Africa’s crippling covid-19 wave
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🗓️ 28 June 2021
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Hopes that the continent had escaped the worst of the pandemic have proved too hasty; our correspondent describes a slow-rolling tragedy with little hope of respite. Reading scores in America are shockingly low; many blame how the skill is taught. We examine one state’s experiment with a method known to work better. And how smartphones are changing the film industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Saudi Arabia's economy is transforming. What's behind it? The Public Investment Fund, or PIF. |
| 0:07.1 | It's one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, creating 13 new sectors, |
| 0:12.2 | 66 companies, and more than 500,000 direct and indirect jobs so far. PIF is also the first |
| 0:19.5 | sovereign wealth fund to issue a green bond supporting Saudi Arabia's 2016 Net Zero emissions target. |
| 0:26.6 | Find out more at pif.gov.sa. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:41.3 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:49.8 | For those who do it well, reading comes so naturally that it's easy to forget how it's learned. |
| 0:55.0 | Opinions vary on how best to teach it, but research clearly points to an approach called phonics. |
| 1:01.1 | So why is it so rarely used in America? |
| 1:04.2 | And we take a look at a London Film Festival dedicated to movies mostly shot using smart phones. |
| 1:10.5 | Increasingly snazzy cameras in phones are changing what kinds of films get made, |
| 1:15.4 | and may even supplant some of Hollywood's trucks full of kit. |
| 1:27.5 | First up though. |
| 1:33.7 | As I address you this evening, the situation has gotten worse. Along with many other countries on our |
| 1:41.0 | continent Africa. South Africa is seeing a massive resurgence of infections. |
| 1:48.2 | Last night South Africa's president Cyril Ramaposa announced new restrictions for the next two weeks. |
| 1:54.4 | After the country recorded nearly 15,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. |
| 1:59.7 | A kef you will be in place from 9 pm to 4 am and all non-essential establishments |
| 2:07.5 | We need to close by 8 pm. South Africa isn't alone. The whole continent is suffering from a devastating |
| 2:15.2 | resurgence of COVID-19. The world's health organization is warning Africa not to get complacent |
| 2:21.5 | in the fight against COVID. Within the last three weeks the number of new daily cases in Uganda |
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