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Coronavirus conversations: Parenting and home schooling in lockdown

We speak to parents about the challenges of parenting and home schooling during lockdown.

Few countries have been spared the challenges of being teacher and mum and dad at the same time. Priya in India and Mpulte in South Africa - two mums who managing the juggling act -- share their experiences.

We bring you today’s developments and answer audience questions on Covid-19 vaccines, after encouraging results from the trials of two new vaccines. The Belgian pharmaceutical company Janssen, owned by Johnson & Johnson, has announced that a single dose of its vaccine prevents 66% of Covid cases. Also, a new Novavax vaccine has been shown to be 89.3% effective in large-scale trials in the UK. And the EU's drugs regulator has approved the use of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for people aged over 18.

And we hear from women in Poland protesting against the country's new abortion law.

(Photo: Leonard, 4 and Wilfred, 7, work at the dining table as they take part in home schooling at home in London in 2020 Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

53 minutes

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Fri 29 Jan 2021 17:06GMT

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  • Fri 29 Jan 2021 17:06GMT

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