Covid 19

Last week, Jackie Miller joined the show for our Calling Home segment, where she told listeners about her lifestyle in the Liguria region of Italy. Seven days later she is living in a Covid-19 danger… Audio

So far novel coronavirus has infected more than 80,000 people and caused over 2,800 deaths. Dr Chris Smith, consultant virologist at Cambridge University and one of BBC Radio 5 Live's Naked… Audio

Science writer David Quammen is the author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. We'll ask him what we know about the animal origin of COVID-19 and what his experience studying… Audio

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield joined Kim in the studio to discuss the significance of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in New Zealand and how the Ministry of Health is responding. Audio

Lew Dagger has been in China for the past twenty years. He lives and works in Jinghong in the south of Yunnan, close to the Myanmar border. He joins the show for an update on the impact coronavirus… Audio

Sara Del Valle is an applied mathematician and disease modeller. She and other disease modellers have gazed into their computers to see the future of Covid-19 and the news, in her opinion, is not bad… Audio

Professor Raina McIntyre leads the Biosecurity Research Program at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. One of her key research areas is in epidemic responses to… Audio

Academics have been taken by surprise at how far and how fast the coronavirus has travelled. Associate Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott from the University of Sydney who specialises in global health… Audio