What we can learn from Africa’s pandemic response

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds explains why Africa has been spared the worst of the pandemic, Natasha reveals the middle-class private jet boom and Matt Burgess looks at the worrying rise of police fingerprint scanners.

The stories we talked about this week:

The world could learn a lot from how Africa is handling Covid-19
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-africa

Police are using fingerprint scanners to target Black Britons
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/police-fingerprint-scan-uk

The pandemic has created a middle class private jet boom
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-planes-bonanza

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess