Coronavirus: Nepal

Nepal has one of the highest Covid-19 infection rates in the world, caused largely by a spread of cases from neighbouring India. We speak to our correspondent there and hear from doctors about the situation in hospitals amid a shortage of oxygen and beds. We also look into reports of a new "Nepal mutation" and what we know about it.

Our coronavirus expert of the day, Dr Megan Murray from Harvard School of Public Health, joins us to go through some of the other main coronavirus lines of the day and answer listener questions about the virus.

And we hear from transgender athletes in the US, as Florida becomes the latest state to ban trans women from female sports.

We go to Mexico to hear about the violence during the election season. Dozens of candidates have been killed since the campaigning began.

(Photo:A woman holds on to the oxygen cylinders for a patient after refiling them at a factory, amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) surge as India"s outbreak spreads across South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 9, 2021. Credit: Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo/Reuters)