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All this week, we're hearing the stories behind the numbers in the coronavirus pandemic. We've been collecting audio messages from friends and family of some of the many people around the world now lost to the virus. The total number is now approaching 900,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Today you'll hear stories of people from Sweden, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Kenya, the Philippines and Pakistan.

We'll speak to our correspondent Nawal al-Maghafi, who has been reporting on the pandemic in Yemen: the first international journalist to do so since the start of the outbreak. She'll tell us how it's having an impact on a country already facing humanitarian disaster, even before the virus spread. One of our regular experts on coronavirus will also talk us through the news of the day on the pandemic. And we speak to a doctor in Senegal about what other countries can learn from Senegal's relative success in keeping on top of infections.

And we're staying in touch with the protests in Belarus. We hear one account from a protester about another large turnout on the streets this weekend and some of the violence in response.

(Photo: Reza Sedghi, a "beautiful, wonderful dad, husband, grandpa, father-in-law and friend" who died from Covid-19 in Stockholm in April, age 92. Credit: Lili Sedghi)