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World Business Report: First broadcast 16/11/2020 01:06 GMT: Covid vaccine: Challenges of distributing it around the world

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First broadcast 16/11/2020 01:06 GMT: Covid vaccine: Challenges of distributing it around the world

Covid vaccine: Challenges of distributing it around the world

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And what technology exists for keeping it at the correct temperature?

After highs of a vaccine success story - the difficult questions remain about how the big pharmaceutical firms go about getting it to people around the world.

We head to Ethiopia - once held up as the poster child of of coming economic success on the African continent - now seemingly spiralling towards civil war and a possible conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.

And we'll tell you all about the world's biggest free trade agreement - and what it might mean more generally for global trade.

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