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Business Weekly: How important are vaccine passports?

How important will vaccine passports be?

27/02/2021 GMT

How important are vaccine passports?

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Some say they will help us return to life as we knew it. Others warn of ethical dilemmas

Some say they will help us return to life as we knew it. Others warn of serious ethical concerns.

As the global Covid-19 vaccination drive slowly gathers pace - on Business Weekly we’ll be looking at whether vaccine passports will help us return to life as we once knew it. While the travel industry is keen to use them, scientists warn that not only will they not work properly but they could pose serious ethical dilemmas. We’ll also hear from the people scooping facemasks out of the ocean - who are warning that Covid-19 has caused a pandemic of plastic waste. In the effort to save the planet from climate change, US President Joe Biden has promised to reduce the US’s carbon emissions. We’ll hear from the American coal workers who are worried for their jobs. Also, the pandemic has thrown the global wedding industry into disarray. We’ll meet the couples who got married during the pandemic in really quite extraordinary circumstances. And we’ll look at the history of hairstyles in the workplace.

Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Szu Ping Chan.

Picture: A close-up of an ampoule and syringe needle (Credit: Getty).

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