What we can learn from Africa’s pandemic response

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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

Brian Satis

Brian is WhatPod's Technology Editor. San Jose resident and veteran of the first Silicon Valley tech boom, Brian is founder of Duotone Game Studio and a contributing writer for Synthetic Dimensions, Podzone and Tech News Monthly.Got a podcast to suggest ? Contact Brian (brian.satis@whatpod.com.au)