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Back to Wuhan

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Adam chats to our China correspondent, John Sudworth, who’s just returned from Wuhan. We’re also joined by friend of the podcast, Professor Clare Wenham, to talk about social distancing in Panama, where men and women are allowed out on different days! Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Sam Bonham, Kathy Long and Natalie Ktena Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

Hello, one of our most popular ever episodes

0:07.8

was when Carrie Gracie was talking about

0:10.0

how this all began in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

0:14.2

Well, our colleague John Sudworth has just come back

0:18.4

from actual Wuhan.

0:20.4

So we're gonna do a sequel to that episode,

0:23.1

which I wanted to call back to, back to Wuhan,

0:26.6

but that doesn't really make any sense.

0:28.2

But it's definitely worth listening to John's story.

0:30.8

He's got lots of interesting stuff.

0:32.5

And then we're gonna speak to Claire Wenham,

0:35.1

Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at LSE.

0:38.0

And Claire, you've just dropped a bombshell on me

0:40.2

about how they're doing their social distancing

0:42.6

in where Panama?

0:44.1

Yeah, in Panama and earlier in Peru and in Bogota,

0:48.0

they decided to socially distance by gender.

0:51.1

So men are allowed out of the house on Tuesdays,

0:54.1

Thursdays and Saturdays,

0:55.2

and women are allowed out on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

0:58.3

And you can imagine that opens all sorts of questions

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