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World Business Report: First broadcast 07/09/2020 00:06 GMT: India overtakes Brazil in Covid-19 cases

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India overtakes Brazil in Covid-19 cases

First broadcast 07/09/2020 00:06 GMT

First broadcast 07/09/2020 00:06 GMT: India overtakes Brazil in Covid-19 cases

BBC World Service - World Business Report, India overtakes Brazil in Covid-19 cases

Fears for the economy as cases spiral beyond 4.2 million.

Fears for the Indian economy as cases spiral beyond 4.2 million.

India has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking its total above that of Brazil. The country now has the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world after the United States. Presenter Rahul Tandon speaks to Ramjit Ray who runs a marketing company in Kolkata on the economic pain the pandemic is causing. Also will recent moves by the Chinese government stop social media giant TikTok ever being broken up? We hear from tech journalist Chris Stokel Walker. Plus former Swedish finance minister Anders Borg discusses how more technologically advanced societies could recover most quickly from the economic pain of covid and we speak to Cote D'Ivoire entrepreneur Charlette N'Guessa, the first woman to win the Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

(Image: Passengers using the Delhi Metro as it restarts operations after five months, Getty Images)

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