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27/03/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - BBC OS Conversations, Coronavirus: Homelessness

Two people who became homeless because of the pandemic tell us their stories

The coronavirus has changed almost everyone’s lives and for some losing their jobs has led to homelessness. Edward in the United States had to sleep in the New York subway and train stations before finding help from a mission, while Walter spent five months homeless in South Africa - even for a stint, on the famous Table Mountain.
 
Italy is facing the prospect of another total shutdown, little more than a year after it became the first country in Europe to introduce a national lockdown. Host Nuala McGovern hears how families in Rome are approaching the renewed restrictions.
 
Nuala also considers the future workplace and how the pandemic has been good for robots. Two robotics experts in Denmark and Switzerland discuss why they believe the increasing use of robots doing jobs in the future is to be welcomed rather than feared - especially when it comes to reducing infection from Covid-19.

(Photo: Walter Nyanmugama. Credit: Walter Nyanmugama )

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