{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/60f5d2fcb4f845001225ba52/611a0b5e29aaa600197de050?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Alex Smith | Covid 19: Ship to Shore","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60f5d2fcb4f845001225ba52/1629096021823-b2bcb3f9e892c6c994209d82542b9fa5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>It is 2020, and reports of the newly emerging Covid-19 virus break in Wuhan, China. It was then little known that the virus would quickly take over the world and lock us down for months.&nbsp;</p><p>There was a cruise ship named the Diamond Princess near the coast of Japan that caught attention quickly.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>As an experienced performer, Alex Smith worked on cruise ships as a dance captain and was accustomed to living on a ship as her everyday life. As soon as this new virus arrived onboard, breaking news suddenly became something very real.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Alex, one of the first Britons to experience COVID-19, describes her unique experience of the pandemic. From ship to shore, Japan, and a flight like no other back to England, this is where the pandemic started before it was the pandemic we know today.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Sam Stephen"}