Hello I'm Linda and I'm Mercy and we're the presenters of Parentland and the BBC World Service

The podcast for anyone interested in raising children.

Before you listen to your chosen podcast we want to let you know that Parentland is back.

To help answer any questions you have about parenting during the pandemic.

From Delhi to Dhaka, Sauita to Shanghai,

if you have questions about staying healthy, the best way to explain coronavirus to your kids,

or just surviving the family during lockdown.

Our Parentland experts might have the answers you need.

So search for Parentland wherever you get your podcasts. Cries echo between Wuhan's high-rise flats. The residents in lockdown are shouting a message

of encouragement across the spaces. Add oil, it means keep up the fight.

How China has waged that fight has exposed strengths and weaknesses of the world's second superpower.

It's not just a medical crisis, it's a political one.

Over the next half an hour I'll be asking whether the epidemic has threatened China's all powerful

one-party system or strengthened it.

I think China as a whole, including the Chinese government and the Chinese people, have been

doing an unprecedented heroic struggle against the coronavirus.

As the world watches China recover, the virus lingers in the body politic. Some won't get over it.

We all know who should be blamed. Too many people are infected. The Chinese government don't even allow people to tell the

truth and they don't tell the truth as well. I don't know who I can trust.

The virus spread from a Wuhan market selling wild creatures for meat around the time of the spring festival,

which should be the happiest time of the year when the TV is full of cheery variety shows. the But as the dark news and the disease itself spread out from Hubei province, for one man in

Wuhan, a nightmare was beginning. We're calling him Mr Ding. He wanted to tell the BBC his story,

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