Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly, and we're bringing you BBC OS conversations about coronavirus here on the BBC World Service.

We speak to doctors in Italy and France concerned about the recent rise in

coronavirus cases but for two couples in the United States the pandemic provided emotional space for an unexpected romance.

Imagine two people who are normally like non-stop, go, go, go, and there's nothing interrupting. and so you're able to kind of take that time and actually be present and we don't often get to do that you know when our world is is moving so fast.

Almost every country in the world has had some sort of coronavirus outbreak,

but there are still a handful that are free of the disease,

including three Pacific Island nations. Located in the

southern hemisphere near Australia and Papua New Guinea, these islands are still

feeling the economic effects of the pandemic. So we brought together three people from

the region to share their experiences with my colleague Nulamagoven. They are

Bill who owns a scuba diving resort in Micronesia,

Ender who's got a small family business in the Solomon Islands.

But the first voice that you'll hear is Liz.

She runs a boutique resort in Vanuatu.

Thanks to our government with quick closure of borders.

We've managed to keep COVID out of here.

So we've got a lot of freedom.

We don't have COVID so we can move around freely.

Unfortunately though we've had other

disasters like cyclone and also an economic one. So although we don't have

COVID we have an economic crisis and we've just overcome a state of emergency with our cyclone Harold that we had back in May now.

But we live in a really beautiful idyllic Pacific Island, so we are so lucky.

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