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BBC Asian Network's Big Debate: Coronavirus: Getting people back home, mental health, and NHS volunteers

Coronavirus: Getting people back home, mental health, and NHS volunteers

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Qasa chats to Lord Ahmad - the Minister in charge of getting Brits back from South Asia.

Qasa Alom gets a round-up of the latest coronavirus news from our reporter Shabnam Mahmood. After that we hear from Lord Ahmad – the UK Foreign Office Minister for South Asia. We’ll be putting your questions to him and finding out what is being done to help Brits stuck abroad during the pandemic. Then Qasa will be joined by this week’s guru – Simon Calder. The travel expert is live on the show to answer all your questions. Then we’ll chat to our reporter Pete Walker, after a leading mental health charity said it had witnessed a 150% increase in traffic to its website during lockdown. Plus, we’ll hear from three people who have decided to volunteer to help the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic. Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged 250,000 people to come forward but latest figures show that over 750,000 have signed up. And we’ll hear from BAFTA winner Hassan Akkad, who is now working full time cleaning Covid-19 wards at a hospital in London, He now feels judged and undervalued for being a cleaner and believes the job has negative perceptions unjustly attached to it.

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