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World Service,15 Nov 2021,23 mins

Businesses call for urgent support, as new Austrian lockdown looms

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Austria is placing about two million unvaccinated people in lockdown from Monday amid record Covid infection levels. It has led already for calls for greater government support from sectors like the hospitality and crucial winter tourism industries as the BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna explained. Also on the programme, how a change of phrasing on coals power usage left a cloud over the final weekend at COP26, what history can teach us about the current inflation crisis, and the return of the Dubai airshow - but will any aircraft actually get sold? Picture credit: AFP

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