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Business Weekly: Getting a Covid-19 vaccine to where it's most needed

New COVID-19 vaccine offers 90% protection

14/11/2020 GMT

Getting a Covid-19 vaccine to where it's most needed

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As Pfizer says its vaccine is 90% effective, we ask what are the logistical challenges?

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says it believes its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective - but how easy will it be to transport and who will get first access?

Excitement and hope this week as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said it believed that its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective. On this edition of Business Weekly we’ll look at the logistical challenges of rolling it out. How will it be transported? Who will get access to it - and how much will it cost? Also at a high level climate change conference in London our correspondent chats to chief executives who say capitalism can help the planet - but will they put their money where their mouth is? Plus, what, if anything do parents owe their children? We have the intriguing story of the man who sued his parents because they couldn’t afford him. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Vishala Sri-Pathma.

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