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World Business Report: First broadcast 12/11/2020 22:32 GMT: Confirmed US daily covid cases at all time high

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Confirmed US daily covid cases at all time high

First broadcast 12/11/2020 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 12/11/2020 22:32 GMT: Confirmed US daily covid cases at all time high

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Confirmed US daily covid cases at all time high

More than 142,000 people tested positive in the past 24 hours.

The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the United States has hit an all-time daily high for a second day in a row. More than 142,000 people tested positive in the past 24 hours. In more than a dozen US states, the number of infections has doubled in a fortnight. We get an update on the situation in Michigan from The Detroit News health writer Karen Bouffard. Also in the programme, with seven weeks til the UK is not bound by EU rules, we consider British farmers' future. Alun Edwards owns Cae Coch farm in Wales, and discusses how upcoming changes to subsidies will affect his business. Natasha Foote of news agency Euractiv explains the proposed changes. We hear from Neil Parish MP, who also chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee in the House of Commons. And we get an assessment of the government's new Environmental Land Management model from Tom Bradshaw, vice-president of the National Farmers' Union in the UK. Plus, with sales on of guitars on the rise as a result of people being stuck at home because of Covid-19, we find out more from James Curleigh, CEO of Gibson, makes of the some of the most famous guitars in the world.

(Picture: the USA flag with coronavirus images on it. Credit: Getty Images.)

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