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'Milestone' vaccine offers 90% Covid protection

The first effective coronavirus vaccine prevents more than 90% of people getting Covid-19.

The first effective coronavirus vaccine prevents more than 90% of people getting Covid-19. Rachel Winter is associate investment director at Killik and Co, and talks us through the market winners and losers on news of the development, which comes from a partnership between Pfizer and BioNTech. Also in the programme, following confirmation over the weekend that Joe Biden is to become the 46th President of the United States, Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic considers the likely impact on America's future trade policy towards China, and whether Mr Biden might strike deals with the Republicans. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Justin Rowlatt talks us through the aims of the Green Horizon Summit, starting in London, examining ways bankers and financial policy makers can get cash behind efforts to tackle climate change. Plus, our regular workplace commentator Pilita Clarke asks what Joe Biden's election says about the traditional idea of the age at which we should all retire.

(Picture: A syringe and a vial of liquid. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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  • Mon 9 Nov 2020 22:32GMT