Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,21 Feb 2022,26 mins

England is expected to end Covid restrictions

World Business Report

Available for over a year

Amid falling case rates, England is expected to remove all Covid restrictions. We get reaction to the move from Professor Devi Sridhar, who is the University of Edinburgh's Chair in Global Public Health. Also in the programme, authorities in Tanzania are taking steps to regulate informal street traders, by creating permanent markets and requiring hawkers to move into them. We find out more from journalist Priya Sippy, who is in the country's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. Plus, the mayor of Sacramento, California, wants to pass a law which gives everyone the legal right to housing. The BBC's Sarah Hawkins reports on how such an idea might work in practice. Today's edition is presented by Rob Young, and produced by Nisha Patel and Ivana Davidovic. (Picture: Commuters at a station in London. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

Programme Website
More episodes