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UK restricts hospitality to combat coronavirus

UK prime minister Boris Johnson has announced new measures to tackle coronavirus.

UK prime minister Boris Johnson has announced new measures to tackle coronavirus. Bars and restaurants will now have to close at 10pm, and we ask Kate Nicholls, chief executive of the industry body UK Hospitality, how the sector will cope. And Kim Sneppen, professor of biocomplexity at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, tells us how Denmark is handling a recent rise in coronavirus infections.
We consider how agricultural tariffs, imposed by President Trump in his trade battle with China, may have impacted the vote amongst American farmers in Florida in a report from journalist Heather van Blokland.
Also in the programme, following India's ban of the popular Chinese social media app TikTok earlier this year, homegrown Indian competitors are filling the void. Chingari has managed to attract 30 million users to its platform in just three months, and we hear more from its founder, Sumit Ghosh.

(Picture: A waitress takes an order in London. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Tue 22 Sep 2020 21:32GMT

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