A lockdown exit strategy: Lessons from Israel and Australia
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The Times
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On Monday the prime minister will unveil a roadmap for how we exit lockdown. Today we look to two countries which might show us a glimpse of the future: Australia and Israel.
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Guests:
-Tom Whipple, Science editor at The Times.
-Bernard Lagan, Australia correspondent at The Times.
-Anshel Pfeffer, Freelance journalist for The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK has hit a major milestone in the battle against Covid. |
| 0:08.0 | This country has achieved an extraordinary feat, administering a total of 15 million jabs. |
| 0:14.0 | 15 million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine, a shot in the arm for the government. |
| 0:21.0 | There's light at the end of the tunnel. |
| 0:23.0 | And on Monday, the Prime Minister will unveil a roadmap for how we leave lockdown. |
| 0:29.0 | What can we learn from the experience of other countries? |
| 0:33.0 | Today, we look to Israel, which is leading the vaccine race and to Australia to see what they've got right. |
| 0:40.0 | Hundreds of international tennis players are arriving ahead of the Australian Open in Melbourne. |
| 0:45.0 | It's masks off Monday. |
| 0:47.0 | Have a beer and have a few snags off the barbie with all the mates. |
| 0:51.0 | We'll also look at some of the potential challenges which lay ahead as we try to control the virus at the borders. |
| 0:58.0 | Victoria's hotel quarantine programme is in disarray tonight with almost a thousand employees in isolation. |
| 1:05.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Manvin Rana. Today, a lockdown exit strategy. |
| 1:14.0 | Lessons from Israel and Australia. |
| 1:22.0 | In the week beginning the 22nd of February, we will set out our plan. |
| 1:28.0 | And I'll be sitting out as much as we can about that roadmap forward on February 22nd. |
| 1:35.0 | The Prime Minister has set out that he will publish a roadmap on the 22nd of February, |
| 1:42.0 | take into account all that we know by then. |
| 1:46.0 | I am Tom Whipple and I'm the science editor at the Times. |
| 1:51.0 | Tom, we've spoken throughout the year trying to get a sense of what might be coming down the road |
| 1:57.0 | in terms of Covid. And if there were such things as parties, I'm sure you'd be asked this all the time now. |
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