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The Centre for Global Development claims that excess deaths in India are ten times higher than normal, meaning the death toll from coronavirus could be in the millions, rather than the official estimate of around 400,000. We hear from Arvind Subramanian, one of the study's authors; he's a former chief economic adviser to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. New York's attorney general has reached a $1.1bn settlement with a number of pharmaceutical firms over their alleged role in the prescription opioid epidemic. We hear more from Carl Tobias, a Professor of Law at the University of Richmond. As Amazon's Jeff Bezos blasts to space on his rocket, we look at the space tourism race. Bezos's Blue Origin joins Elon Musk and Richard Branson in the club of very rich people with big ambitions on the rest of the universe, and Dr Maggie Lieu, an astrophysicist at Nottingham University, brings us the background. Plus, our regular workplace commentator, Peter Morgan, considers the future of work after the pandemic, in a world where there is a difference between what boardrooms want, and what workers aspire to. Plus, we're joined throughout the programme by Hayley Woodin, executive editor of Business in Vancouver, and in New Delhi, we're joined by Sushma Ramachandran an independent business journalist and columnist for The Tribune newspaper. (Picture a health worker inoculates a man with a Covid-19 vaccine in Ahmedabad. Photo by Sam Panthaky via Getty Images).