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BBC OS: 2020/05/25 16:06 GMT: Coronavirus: Conversation with obituary editors

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Coronavirus: Conversation with obituary editors

2020/05/25 16:06 GMT

2020/05/25 16:06 GMT: Coronavirus: Conversation with obituary editors

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Coronavirus: Conversation with obituary editors

Remembering in print the people who have died

After the New York Times filled its front page with one-line obituaries of people who have died with coronavirus, we speak to three American editors who work on newspaper pages which remember the dead. The official number of coronavirus deaths in the United States is approaching 100,000.

A senior aide to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been explaining his actions after leaving London during lockdown restrictions. Dominic Cummings says there were no childcare options available to him in London and there were exceptional circumstances.

And we answer your questions on Covid-19 with Dr Eleanor Murray.

Picture: A copy of The New York Times, featuring 1,000 Covid-19 death notices, on sale in Manhattan
Credit: Reuters / Andrew Kelly

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