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Mass Covid tests in Hong Kong

05/09/2020 GMT

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Hong Kong: Mass Covid tests; India registers over 4 million Covid cases

The Hong Kong authorities embark on mass testing for Coronavirus.

India hits a milestone as more than 4 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, with fear of a spread in the countryside.

The rise of the hard-line Austrian politician, Sebastian Kurz, and the issue of migration in the country.

The Nobel Prize geneticist, Sir Paul Nurse, on what life is?

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are the journalist, Isabel Hilton, CEO of China Dialogue which describes itself as an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s environmental challenges; and Chris Smith, a consultant medical virologist and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He is also the host of the radio show – The Naked Scientist.

(Photo: Medical professionals collect swab sample at the community testing centre for the Coronavirus in Hong Kong. Credit: Reuters)

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