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Hello I'm Winifred Robinson.

Everything you'll hear in this program, the coronavirus Front Line Special, has been recorded for the BBC World Service by Dr John Wright.

He's an epidemiologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary in the north of England. He's been

keeping an audio diary for BBC radio and interviewing colleagues and

patients. He started the week before the lockdown in the UK that was on the 23rd of March

Three months on as the restrictions are being lifted. He's taking some time to reflect

I look forward to my Saturday hibernation at home. I've been at the hospital every working day and many weekends for the last four months,

so homewworking has passed me by. I have no Zoom bookhelves or Attic Office. Weekends are the time for me to get a taste of

cabin fever. The hospital has admitted over 1,200 patients, 2.30 of them have tragically died.

Age is the biggest predictor of death.

You are a hundred times more likely to die with COVID-19

if you are 80 years old old compared to 40 years old.

Ethnicity is another key risk factor with new evidence emerging that

South Asian patients are 20% more likely to die in hospital.

The virus is still circulating in the UK, over 1,200 cases today, more than 120 deaths. The epidemic curve is heading home, but more slowly than in other countries, and in

Bradford our decline remains slower than other hospitals.

How the virus reached the UK and this northern town is one among many mysteries.

COVID-19 spreads in infected droplets, sneezed, coughed or exhaled.

Singing has turned out to be a good way of passing it on.

There have been outbreaks linked to choirs around the world.

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