Hello, I'm Nula McGovern on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS,

conversations about the coronavirus.

We've been asking people to share their thoughts about how Covid-19 might change the world,

and as part of the BBC's Rethink series, we hear from listeners and health experts about life

in a post-pandemic world. What are we going to do as societies to have a longer term

solution to protect people who have been affected by this pandemic, whose industries,

you know, might not be back up to full speed any time in the next few months?

The coronavirus pandemic has caused millions of us around the world to rethink,

not only how we live now, but also how we live in the future. Some of the people we've spoken

on previous programmes from several countries have also given this some thought and have shared

their hopes and fears. We're about to hear from Jacamo Leone, who lives in Italy. But first,

here's Matilda Agamoo, who was the first person to contract Covid-19 in her region of Northern

Ghana. She was hospitalized while heavily pregnant, and has since given birth to a healthy baby girl.

When my blood sample was taken to test for Covid-19, some people had already posted

on Facebook declaring me positive. When the test came back positive,

the stigmatisation became worse. Neighbours and friends avoided me and my family. Even after

I had recovered, I was blacklisted, and I wasn't allowed to open my shop.

That meant I had no funds. My husband, who was a business man? Who's with the test positive

for Covid-19? With no one visiting me, I was levied the Covid-19 woman. But thanks to

counselling and public education campaigning in my part of Northern Ghana, I have overcome this.

This pandemic has no boundaries. And like malaria, like Ebola,

polio, and smallpox, it's likely that Covid-19 will be in our lives forever. But the best way we

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