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Frontline workers in UAE offered coronavirus vaccine

11/10/2020 GMT

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UAE offers experimental coronavirus vaccines to frontline workers; Trump back campaigning

The United Arab Emirates offers an experimental coronavirus vaccine to its frontline health workers after a spike in cases.

Also, President Trump returns to the campaign trail after being treated for Covid-19 and he makes a pitch for Black American and Latino voters.

And a survey of attitudes towards China shows a marked negative turn in views in western countries in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other issues are Nitasha Kaul, a Kashmiri-British novelist and academic based in London and Michael Keating, Executive Director of European Institute of Peace in Brussels, and a former UN Envoy to Somalia.

(Picture: Workers wait their turn for vaccine trials at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Reuters)

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