blessing bow and he's electra and international relations and a space policy expert at the university of leicester. dr. bohn welcomed. why does china want to space station? so the chinese space station it is very much a marker or chinese technological i'm scientific and engineering capability. it's very much and aspects of soft power for the chinese government and both for domestic and international audiences. so it's a real marker of that, of china as em technological mission and actual capability now that it has achieved what it says to do about 30 years ago, which was to build a crude space they should. but those china space program added to the knowledge, knowledge about space for humanity, if i can put it that very so in some ways speak, we can expect that we have to break down china space program between it's more military and commercial and economic aspects. this is the scientific man, the exploration aspects of the space station is very much a scientific project. so m chinese university, that industries will be conducting all sorts of experiments and on, on the space station and also invit

doctor blood bow and he's electra and international relations and a space policy expert at the university of leicester. dr. bohn welcomed. why does china want to space station? so the chinese space station is very much a marker of the chinese technological, scientific, and engineering capability. it's very much an aspect of soft power for the chinese government and both for domestic and international audiences. so it's a real marker of, of that, of china as em technological mission and actual capability. now that it has achieved what had set out to do about 30 years ago, which was to build a crude space, they should put those on a space program. add to the knowledge to knowledge about space for humanity. if i can put it that very so in some ways this week we can expect that we have to break down china space program between it's more military and commercial and economic aspects. this is the scientific man. the exploration aspects of the space station is very much a scientific project. so m, chinese university, that industries will be conducting all sorts of experiments and on the space station and also

he is a virologist at the university of leicester. thank you very much. ed by this month-long delay?— month-long delay? yeah, it's interesting — month-long delay? yeah, it's interesting briefing. - month-long delay? yeah, it's interesting briefing. what - month-long delay? yeah, it's| interesting briefing. what they month-long delay? yeah, it's- interesting briefing. what they are trying to do is reduce the increase if we went to full relaxation on the zist if we went to full relaxation on the 21st ofjune. what they do address was to some extent that if you leave things that they are, those trajectories would still increase unless they're relying on the programme to roll—out to suppress some of that. but we don't know where those cases are happening. i am concerned about the issues about long covid. even if you allow that opening up, you might see an increase in lung covid. —— along covid. even if they don't lead to hospitalisation and death. in other words, it's the _ hospitalisation and death. in other words, it's the long-term - hospitalisation and deat