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Biden plans Covid vaccination push

President-elect sets out ambitious target as a new, more transmissible strain of the coronavirus is expected to sweep the country.

US President-elect Joe Biden lays out an ambitious Coronavirus vaccination plan - warning things will get worse before they get better. India also gears up to start its own huge campaign this weekend, tackling its population of 1.3 billion people. Plus, German chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party meets to elect a new leader, who will stand a good chance of becoming chancellor after September's general election, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Marie Keyworth asks what is next for Germany in the post-Merkel era. Also in the programme, we discuss the farming sector including discrimination among African-American farmers in the US. Plus Professor Brian Steffenson at the University of Minnesota joins the show to explore an exciting new development in gene technology speeds up the breeding process to help make wheat more resistant to fungal infestation. Plus, there's new evidence that bees are gathering pollen and nectar from different kinds of flowers. Dr Natasha de Vere, head of conservation and research at the National Botanic Garden of Wales explains the implications. Peter Ryan, the ABC's Senior Business Correspondent, joins Business Matters’ Fergus Nicholl for comment.
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