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South Korea and Japan both saw cases of Covid-19 rise again after they had fallen and Iran is experiencing a rise again now. Sometimes this is a referred to as a second wave or a second peak. Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Oxford explains the difference between second waves and peaks and how to reduce the chances of them happening as countries emerge from lockdown.

The number of deaths from Covid-19 is forcing all of us to confront our own mortality and the mortality of those we love most. And for some people this is prompting the kind of discussions they might tend to avoid, and one of those people is our reporter in California, Alison van Diggelen, who has an elderly mother living in Scotland. Alison explores how we should all be talking more openly about death as more Americans are experiencing end of life care at home rather than in hospital.

Viktor Frankl was one of the great Viennese psychotherapists. He survived time in four different Nazi concentration camps in World World War II and he wrote a bestselling book, Man's Search for Meaning, that uses those experiences. A collection of his lectures called Yes to Life in Spite of Everything has just been published in English for the first time. To find out more about the man and his work, and its relevance today, Claudia spoke to his grandson, film maker and psychotherapist Alex Vesely, and Alfried Laengle, once Frankl鈥檚 apprentice.

James Gallagher, 大象传媒 Health Correspondent, discusses with Claudia research that estimates how many lives have been saved by countries locking down and why trials of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 have been halted.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Editor: Deborah Cohen

(Image: Iranians wearing face masks in a metro station in Tehran. Photo credit: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images.)