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Wuhan's citizens out of lockdown

Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.

In Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus epidemic began, 11,000,000 citizens are finally out of lockdown after 76 days. But Brazil is waiting for the virus to take hold of its crammed favelas while the government argues over how to stop the pandemic as the 主播大秀's Daniel Gallas explains. And with New York reaching what it hopes is a peak in coronavirus cases, some Wall Street firms are asking their traders to return to their desks; we hear from Michelle F Davis of Bloomberg News. YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks; the Google-owned service will now delete videos violating the policy; the 主播大秀's Zoe Thomas brings us the details. To mark Global Health Day, Lucy Burton examines how healthcare systems around the world are under strain due to the pandemic. And as America's biggest and most important survey, the US census, gets underway we explore how authorities plan to collect the statistics during an outbreak. Plus throughout the programme we're joined by Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, president of the Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race, in Richmond Virginia, USA. And in Delhi, Jyoti Malhotra, editor of national and strategic affairs at The Print website. (Picture description: a train station in China by Getty Images).

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