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BBC OS: 2020/10/13 16:06 GMT: US election conversations: Jobs and coronavirus

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US election conversations: Jobs and coronavirus

2020/10/13 16:06 GMT

2020/10/13 16:06 GMT: US election conversations: Jobs and coronavirus

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Two people in conversation about losing their jobs during the pandemic

We hear from two people who lost their jobs in the hospitality industry in the United States during the pandemic. Jack, a cook in California, has been on government support before taking a job as a dishwasher. Susana, a single mother from Massachusetts, "feels embarrassed” about having to ask for help. 

Dr Isaac Bogoch from Toronto University will join us to help understand the day’s developments with Covid-19. We’ll ask about the news that Johnson & Johnson has paused its Covid-19 vaccine trial because of “an unexplained illness” in a participant and also about reports that for the first time a patient has died from reinfection with Covid-19. 

And, there’s been extensive debate on Indian social media about a jewellery advertisement in which a Muslim mother-in-law hosts a bridal shower for her Hindu daughter-in-law. The advert has since been pulled from Indian networks. We hear how tensions between two religious groups affect everyday life in the country.

(Photo: People wait in a block-long line to pick up food at the Masbia of Flatbush food pantry in Brooklyn, New York, USA, 30 April 2020. Credit: JUSTIN LANE/EPA)

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