Bolivia agrees vaccine exports with Canadian company

Canadian drug company Biolyse have agreed to supply 15 million covid vaccine doses to Bolivia. But this is reliant on cooperation by vaccine producers Johnson and Johnson, or compulsory license. We hear from Biolyse's executive vice president John Fulton. According to a World Bank report, remittances to low and middle-income countries from citizens working abroad held up unexpectedly well in 2020, outstripping combined foreign direct investments and overseas development aid. The World Banks's Dilip Ratha explains. Also in the programme, the BBC's Vivienne Nunis examines the practice of recycling lead-acid car batteries, which poses a growing health hazard in many developing countries. Plus, as millions of people around the world start drifting back to the office following a lengthy period of working from home, our regular workplace commentator, Peter Morgan, discusses the implications. All this and more discussed with our two guests on opposite sides of the globe. Lori Ann LaRocco, author of Trade War: Containers Don't Lie and Sushma Ramachandran, columnist for The Tribune newspaper, in Delhi. (Picture: a man receives a vaccine in La Paz, Bolivia. Credit: Getty Images.)