Coronavirus on maternity wards

What's it like catching Covid-19 when you are due to give birth? We hear a conversation between two doctors who have been leading maternity wards throughout the pandemic. They discuss what it has been like working with women who are often alone and sometimes critically ill prior to giving birth, and why many pregnant women regret not getting vaccinated.

The UN has issued an urgent call for aid for Afghanistan where one million children are at risk from severe malnourishment. We hear from a program officer for Women for Women International in Nangahar province about the increasingly desperate situation in the country.

We’ll look at how Novak Djokovic’s visa dispute in Australia has galvanised anti-vaccination activists although the player has never explicitly supported them. Our misinformation reporter will be telling us about the posts by the groups she is monitoring online.

A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. We'll hear from an expert what that could mean for transplant surgery in the future.

(Photo: Woman undergoes an ultrasound scan, Credit: Maastricht UMC+)