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Business Matters: President Biden announces vaccine requirement for US federal workers

President Biden announces vaccine requirement for US federal workers

30/07/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, President Biden announces vaccine requirement for US federal workers

Federal employees will be required to get a Covid vaccine in order to continue working

President Biden has announced federal employees will be required to get a Covid vaccine or submit to regular testing in order to work. The announcement comes as US economic growth for the second quarter brought the economy back to pre-pandemic levels. We'll hear from Cary Leahy of Decision Economics. Also in the programme, thirty years after the overthrow of President Siad Barre in Somalia, the country is still struggling to rebuild. We take a closer look at its prospects, and Professor Laura Hammond of the School of Oriental and African Studies explains the country's current situation. Somalia is rapidly building an online economy, and Mohamed Abdala Mohamud talks us through the Faras Online Market. And Abdalah Abdullahi Mohamud of Somalia's largest telecoms provider Hormuud, which is behind the popular money transfer app EVC+, explains how Somalia has become a near-cashless society. And the BBC's James Clayton gets an inside look into a gas-powered cryptocurrency mine.

All through the show we'll be joined by Rachel Pupazzoni of ABC News in Australia, and Paddy Hirsch of NPR in Los Angeles.

(Picture: US President Biden. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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