Stories from a pandemic

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Stories from the Fifth Floor following the evolving Covid-19 pandemic, from bats in China, to global social media fake news. As told by Howard Zhang of BBC Chinese, Giang Nguyen of BBC Vietnamese, BBC Persian's Siavash Ardalan, Sunyoung Jeong of BBC Korean and BBC Africa's Bara'atu Ibrahim. My home town: Ejigbo, Lagos Sarah Tiamiyu from BBC Pidgin welcomes us to hometown Ejigbo in Lagos, Nigeria. Matronymics – a new Russian revolution? The patronymic is set in stone when it comes to naming Russian children. First name first, then patronymic, which is your father's name, then surname. But as Olga Robinson of BBC Monitoring explains, dramatic changes are afoot, with some mothers putting their own name in the middle - a so-called matronymic. Interviewing Asia Bibi Aliya Nazki of BBC Urdu tells us about meeting Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian who spent years in solitary confinement after being sentenced to death for blasphemy. Kabul's female street-food vendors Zuhal Azad of BBC Afghan recently reported on the trail-blazing female street-food vendors of Kabul. Picture: Coronavirus structure (illustration) Credit: Science Photo Library