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Business Matters: Covid-19 threat to 2021's global sport events

Australian Open hit by Covid-19 quarantine

19/01/2021 GMT

Covid-19 threat to 2021's global sport events

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Covid-19 threat to 2021's global sport events

The impact of Covid-19 on global sport as Australian Open players face quarantine chaos

72 tennis players at the Australian Open are facing 14 days stuck in Melbourne Hotels after positive Covid-19 cases on their inbound planes; We discuss whether the Covid-19 pandemic is still a big threat to major sport events including the Tokyo Olympics. We'll hear the latest on the US Capitol as DC remains on high alert ahead of President-Elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. Car and electronic device makers sound alarm bells amid a global microchip shortage. Russ Mould of stockbrokers AJ Bell is a former semiconductor analyst, and explains the background and implications. More than 140,000 retail jobs have been lost in the UK since the start of the pandemic; we hear how people have been able to survive financially by reinventing their way of doing business. Also in the programme, ski journalist Robert Stewart on why the resort of Courchevel in France is marketing itself as an alternative location for people to work from home. Plus could being too efficient working from home put your job at risk? 

(Picture: Tennis balls in front of an Australian Open logo. Picture credit: Reuters.)

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