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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 Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Chinese, Giang Nguyen of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Vietnamese, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Persian's Siavash Ardalan, Sunyoung Jeong of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Korean and Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Africa's Bara'atu Ibrahim.

My home town: Ejigbo, Lagos
Sarah Tiamiyu from Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Afghan recently reported on the trail-blazing female street-food vendors of Kabul.

Picture: Coronavirus structure (illustration)
Credit: Science Photo Library