thank you, zeinab badawi.unfair for the people to be worried about china's involvement in 56 technology? 0k, anja, there has been a great deal, of course, about the 5g huawei technology with the united states insisting that its allies in europe, the united kingdom and elsewhere should roll back on using 5g technology from huawei. so is it fairfor people to be worried or not? it is fair for people to be worried. data privacy and data security are critical. and it starts with the network itself, with 56, which is the antennas and routers and things, that allwhich is the thing is that all of our smartphones are surely going to be running on, but more importantly than that, but also the internet of things, soon your self driving car will run on it, your electricity grid, and so i do think there is a valid concern that european and the us government had that if one company, whether it is huawei or frankly whether it is any other company, but in particular a company that is so closely tied to the chinese government,

thank you, zeinab.what would happen if we ended lockdown and stop the major restrictions? what would the challenges be like? professor gupta. thank you very much for that question. i guess what we have just called for is exactly that, that, to end lockdowns and stop major restrictions. but with a subtle difference. which is that we need to carry on protecting the vulnerable. this is not because we believe that as soon as you end lockdown and stop major restrictions that there would necessarily be an explosion in cases of infection, in fact that is not what happened over the summer in many countries. sweden, for example, has never had lockdowns or major restrictions and infections are now under control, the epidemic has reached a state of control. so what we think would really work well is if we, the reason why we say this is because lockdown is a really is a really very destructive, as you know, as are some of the major restrictions. so the problem we're faced with of course the cost of the epidemic its

hello and welcome to this edition of global questions with me, zeinab badawi.e afraid of covid. don't let it dominate your life. that's what president trump has been telling americans. does he have a point? well, now thousands of scientists have signed a petition saying we should learn to live with the virus. and they're urging governments to protect the vulnerable and let everybody else get on with their normal activities. that's global questions covid — should we learn to live with it? well, to bring you this edition of global questions, our two panellists and our audience members pose their questions by video link. let me tell you who's in the hot seat giving the answers this week. well, we have professor sunetra gupta from oxford university in england. now, she's one of the three public health scientists who wrote a declaration calling on governments to provide focused protection for the vulnerable and to allow the rest of the population to resume normal life. the petition has been signed by thousands of experts. and dr souyma swaminathan is chief scientist

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