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From Our Own Correspondent: France emerges from lockdown

16/05/2020

France emerges from lockdown

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, France emerges from lockdown

Stories from Sudan, Spain, Bangladesh, Australia and France where shops are open again.

Stories from Sudan, Spain, Bangladesh, Australia and France, where the lockdown has been eased and people can go shopping again. With Kate Adie.

France had one of the toughest lockdowns but now people can go shopping again in outlets that had been shut for the last two months. Lucy Williamson joins customers in Paris as they queue outside, to ask them how they have been faring. 
Sudan can't spend much money on healthcare. But as Mark Weston reports, the young activists from the revolutionary committees that helped to oust President Omar al-Bashir last year, are battling against the coronavirus, armed with hand sanitiser and food for the vulnerable.
The Roma are a minority that has often been blamed for social ills wherever they live, and now they're being scapegoated for the arrival of  Covid-19 in some parts of Spain, as Guy Hedgecoe has found. 
In Bangladesh, garment workers had been enjoying better conditions since the Rana Plaza factory collapsed seven years ago. But now there's a new worry about the coronavirus, and how to get good healthcare. Christine Stewart meets doctors and patients at a charitable hospital where even the poorest patients get top class care, and not just for Covid-19. 
And if you thought that having a cup of tea could provide respite from the news about the pandemic, spare a thought for Steve Evans in Australia, who finds that the knock-on effects of the virus on supply chains means he can no longer get the right tea bags.  
Presenter: Kate Adie
Producer: Arlene Gregorius

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