You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know, I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from

satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about.

So if you fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.

Hello and welcome to the evidence from the BBC World Service produced in collaboration with Welcome Collection.

I'm Claudia Hammond and today we have experts in France, India, China, South Africa, Russia and the UK to answer your questions on the COVID-19 pandemic,

and to advise us on how to live when the risks from the coronavirus are still present

for now at least.

And we'll take a look at the hopes for a vaccine.

You might be surprised to learn that there are around 200 different vaccines under development.

How hopeful are the scientists scientists and if they are successful

will there ever be enough to go round? And later on we'll be focusing on Russia,

now one of the countries with the highest number of cases. And I have an expert panel

ready to answer your questions and this week we have Dr George Hu, who's a

clinical psychologist and section chief of mental health at Shanghai United Family Pudong Hospital in China.

In France we have Dr Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization,

and we have the vaccine expert Professor Gargendep Kang, who is executive director of the Translational

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