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

conversations on coronavirus, pilots and trainee doctors.

We return to the and trainee doctors.

We return to the terrible situation in India.

In just one week, the country now has more than 2.5 million new infections, meaning the total number has risen above 21 million cases.

Today we'll hear how COVID is delaying the training of its medical students and junior doctors.

An internship is supposed to rotate in different clinical departments and gain hands on experience.

Because of COVID, we missed out on all of those opportunities. I don't know how we make up for that.

I want to think first though about the global economy. There have been so many job losses

during the past year with the travel industry particularly affected

as countries either closed their borders or restricted entry. A recent survey suggested that

more than half the world's pilots are no longer flying.

After all, there were not many holiday destinations to fly to as the world battled

against the coronavirus and many workers stayed at home.

Even now, that battle to control the virus continues,

though thankfully this time through vaccinations.

So what happens when you lose your job as a pilot and what you turn to next in terms of a career?

We brought two pilots together to find out. They are Captain Steve Zago in Canada

and Lauren Wilson here in the UK to tell us how their lives have been affected.

I was flying a dash eight regional turboprop aircraft for a company called Flybee in the UK.

And yeah, loved it.

I was based up in the north of Scotland, moving business people mostly around the UK.

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