Coronavirus: Festive celebrations

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🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The arrival of winter for many countries brings the threat of increased infections as people gather indoors to escape the cold. It’s also a time for celebrating religious festivals and holidays. Host Nuala McGovern shares conversations with an American family in Indiana about Thanksgiving, and two young women in Gaza relate their experiences of curfew during the pandemic. Plus, three people living in Japan discuss why they think cases are rising, the implications for Japanese New Year and whether the Olympics should still go ahead in 2021.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Nulam McGovran on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS, conversations about
0:07.0	coronavirus.
0:10.0	As COVID continues to upturn lives, three people in Japan share their thoughts
0:18.5	about the recent rise in cases there and two Palestinian women in Gaza they discuss how a COVID
0:25.8	curfew is affecting their lives. We go to the beach we visit each other.
0:30.3	Especially in winter we like turn on fire and maybe barbecue but now you your day stops at 5 p.m.
0:38.0	Then you stay home and do nothing. This is a risky time of year for countries that are about to experience winter during a
0:50.4	pandemic. Although it's too early to know whether this new coronavirus is
0:55.4	seasonal cold weather sends more people indoors which then increases the risk of
1:01.0	transmitting COVID-19.
1:03.0	Plus, there are a number of religious festivals and holidays,
1:07.0	including Christmas and New Year,
1:09.0	which traditionally involve large gatherings of family and friends.
1:14.0	Millions of people have travelled across the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving,
1:19.0	ignoring official public health advice and despite a continuing rise of coronavirus cases and
1:26.0	deaths.
1:27.8	But for many Americans, the holiday was very different this year and I got to speak to one family in Orange County, Southern Indiana,
1:36.0	about their celebrations. 16 year old Eden and her parents, Aaron and Carlos.
1:42.3	It's just a little weird with the coronavirus going around and you can't be around friends and family.
1:49.0	That's the only weird part about it.
1:51.0	I don't get to see people impersonately, so I just got to talk to them on the phone.
1:55.4	I mean everything else is like the same. The cookie I got to cook again.
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