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AstraZeneca to begin making potential vaccine

Drug company AstraZeneca is to start producing a potential vaccine for coronavirus

Drug company AstraZeneca is to start producing a potential vaccine for coronavirus, as the company's chief executive Pascal Soriot, explains. There's been a surprise fall in the US unemployment rate in May which now stands at 13.3%; we hear from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Samira Hussain. Today is the UN's World Environment Day and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Fergus Nicoll asks whether global lockdowns make a long-term difference to climate change. We hear from Tanushree Ganguly of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water in Delhi and Li Shuo from Greenpeace Asia. We also get the perspective of Professor Pierre Friedlingstein, a specialist in Mathematical Modelling of the Climate System at the University of Exeter and we hear from former senior UN climate official, Rachel Kyte, who's now Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University in the United States.

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