Coronavirus Global Conversations - Care home workers and Covid-19 vaccine volunteers
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
People from all over the world discuss our shared experience of the epidemic; from nurses in intensive care and vaccine researchers, to pregnant women and couples getting married in a lockdown. With host Nuala McGovern, they talk together about how they are living with the impact of these extraordinary times in different countries and how they are trying to get through it. This week: Paramedics and care home workers, living in slums during a pandemic, and the Covid-19 vaccine volunteers hoping to save lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Linda and I'm Mercy and we're the presenters of Parentland and the BBC World |
| 0:05.2 | Service, the podcast for anyone interested in raising children. |
| 0:09.4 | Before you listen to your chosen podcast, we want to let you know that Parentland is back |
| 0:13.4 | to help answer any questions you have about parenting during the pandemic. |
| 0:17.9 | From Delhi to Dakar, so wait until Shanghai, if you have questions about staying healthy, |
| 0:22.6 | the best way to explain coronavirus to your kids or just surviving the family during lockdown. |
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| 0:32.8 | you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello, I'm Nulem O'Govern and we're bringing you coronavirus global conversations here |
| 0:40.4 | on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:46.1 | We hear from people living in the slums of Nairobi and Rio during this pandemic. |
| 0:50.8 | The care home workers from Canada and the UK taking extraordinary measures to ensure |
| 0:55.9 | the elderly are safe. |
| 0:57.6 | Some of the volunteers who are taking part in a vaccine trial for COVID-19. |
| 1:02.0 | The gains were almost unable to be calculated for what it could mean to help preserve |
| 1:08.2 | way of life, save lives, ease pain and suffering around the world. |
| 1:16.9 | So far on the programme, we've heard from a number of doctors and nurses that are battling |
| 1:20.6 | on the front line of the disease. |
| 1:23.0 | But paramedics are often the first member of the medical profession that people will meet |
| 1:27.4 | if an emergency call is made from home. |
| 1:30.4 | We brought together two paramedics, Jomuni from Dublin in Ireland and Anthony Almagira from |
| 1:36.0 | Emergency Medical Services or EMS in New York City and they talk about how COVID-19 is affecting |
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