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Business Weekly: Combating Covid: Closed borders and quarantine hotels

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30/01/2021 GMT

Combating Covid: Closed borders and quarantine hotels

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As the UK imposes new quarantine measures, how has Australia fared with a similar policy?

The UK has said it will impose strict restrictions on people travelling to the country in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19. Travellers from a list of countries deemed 'high risk’ will be put into hotels to quarantine. It is a scheme used in Australia, where cases have remained relatively low. We hear how the economy there was able to open up after the first wave of infections. The end of the Google Loon project means very little in practical terms to people in rural Africa who need internet access. It never managed to deliver on its promise to connect up more of the continent. So, what’s next? Will Elon Musk’s Starlink project be the answer? 

Plus we get the latest on the farmers' protests in India after this week’s rally turned violent. And the director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo tells us how he had to protect the area from exploitative companies as well as armed militias. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.

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