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Series 1: 3. Brave New World

As the pandemic continues, people are increasingly looking for someone to blame, and asking whether life can ever return to normal. Covid-19 deniers become more numerous and vocal as alternative and conspiratorial thought battles conventional science-based reason.\n\nPrakash, a wedding singer from Delhi, begins to question why lockdown continues while so many in his community are unaffected by the virus. In Louisiana, Pastor Spell faces jail after he refuses to close his church or observe social distancing. He believes that the dangers of the virus have been exaggerated to politically discredit President Trump.\n\nAbu is from East London and is a member of the Bangladeshi community who have suffered a disproportionate number of deaths during the pandemic. He runs a charity that helps families meet burial costs. One of the families he helps is Sheouli’s, whose husband died of Covid-19, leaving her and their six-year-old son behind. Meanwhile, Takuma, from an indigenous community in the Amazon, helps his village prepare for the inevitable arrival of the virus.\n\nThe film ends on New Year’s Eve 2020, exactly a year after the series started. The first vaccine in the world has just been given at a hospital in Coventry, England, where Amie - the doctor featured in the first episode - works. She is in bed - sick with Covid.

Source: BBC 2