
President Biden's Covid summit
Mr Biden will urge world leaders to vaccinate 70% of their population within a year
We'll cover President Biden's global Covid vaccine summit and discuss calls to vaccinate 70% of the world by next September with rich countries still holding surpluses of vaccines. In Africa only three percent of the population is fully vaccinated.
The 91热爆 has spent a year following one would-be migrant from Iran who is among thousands of people trying to cross the English Channel in a small boat, to enter the UK to seek asylum. We'll hear from people who made the documentary about his year-long attempt to make the journey.
We'll answer your questions about the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic with one of our regular expert guests. Dr Maria Sundaram, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Marshfield Clinic Research Institute in Wisconsin.
And the Indian ocean island nation of Mauritius has been experiencing a surge in Covid infections. Tourism is the main pillar of its economy. We speak to two people who work in the tourism industry about how they are preparing for peak season.
(Photo: A woman receives a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during the national intensive vaccination days against Covid-19, at a school in Tunis, Tunisia, 11 September 2021 Credit: MOHAMED MESSARA/EPA)
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