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The Philippines aims for economic recovery after the pandemic ended 21 years of growth. Benjamin Diokno is the governor of the central bank of the Philippines, and explains what role his institution might play towards achieving the goal. Also in the programme, the European Commission has published proposals for a digital Covid vaccine certificate, which will also document coronavirus test results. Mehreen Khan is EU correspondent for the Financial Times, and tells us the European Commission plans to leave it up to member states whether to use the certificate to regulate travel within their jurisdictions. Plus, the abuse of people online, or trolling, is on the rise. The BBC s Marie Keyworth reports on whether cyberspace should be a free speech free-for-all, or regulated to screen out the most offensive individuals.
Try this for a vaccination against Covid codswallop
Tim Harford is doing sterling work busting myths and explaining statistics in Radio 4 s More or Less and How to Vaccinate the World
Are supermarkets Coronavirus hotspots?
Tim Harford is a one-man mass vaccination regime against nonsense. He’s been doing this for a while, having presented the investigation programme about numbers and statistics,
More or Less (Radio 4, Wednesday), since 2007. But in the age of rapidly mutating theories and opinions about a virus that the world still doesn’t know much about, his programmes have become ever more essential. And, since late last year, he’s been making