Coronavirus conversations: Portugal's Covid crisis

Germany has flown in medical staff, ventilators and hospital beds to help with the Covid-19 crisis unfolding in Portugal. A doctor and young nurse describe their realities and fears of treating Covid patients in intensive care units.

We speak to Dr Pedro Hallal, an epidemiologist in Brazil, about the new study showing that the Covid vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca may reduce the spread of coronavirus to others. Dr Hallal will also help us answer some audience questions about the virus.

We also look at the reaction in Russia and around the world to the sentencing of Alexei Navalny. The opposition leader was jailed for 3,5 years for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence. Hundreds of his supporters have been arrested. We hear from foreign journalists in the country about what they have witnessed and reported.

(Photo: Funerary workers wearing protective suits carry the body of a man who died inside his house during the nigh in Lisbon Credit: MARIO CRUZ /EPA)