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Caring for care homes

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why has coronavirus hit care homes so hard? Adam, Laura and Fergus talk through the issues affecting care homes. The government’s strategy, the lack of personal protective equipment and the high numbers of coronavirus deaths.

Producers: Nick Rotherham, Frankie Tobi, Seren Jones Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.

0:04.0

It's just gone half past two on Wednesday afternoon.

0:09.4

I don't really know what to call today because it's not the end of the lockdown because they've only made a few

0:15.7

changes and lots of those changes haven't been made in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland where

0:21.0

the rules are a bit different. But what can I see with my eyes?

0:26.1

So I'm on my walk from where I live in North London to the studio in Central London.

0:31.2

I've done this walk every day. I'm now going through St. Pancras station, which is where you get the trains to Paris and Brussels, but also Bedford, Sheffield, Nottingham, Brighton.

0:45.0

It doesn't seem any busier than normal.

0:50.0

There's always been a few people around

0:52.0

every time I've walked through here.

0:56.2

Although two of the coffee and sandwich shops have reopened.

1:04.5

It definitely doesn't look like that video that was doing the rounds on social media this morning. We might have seen it of

1:08.0

the of the bus in East London was just loads and loads of people getting off it which got everyone a

1:14.9

bit worried that had too many people gone back to work today. Of course the big

1:19.7

thing is as we've learned through all of this you can't really tell very much with your own eyes.

1:23.7

What's much more important is the actual data and then how people respond to that

1:29.1

data. So let's discuss all of that and more in this episode of the coronavirus newscast.

1:35.8

The coronavirus newscast from the BBC.

1:38.4

What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones I got some test

1:44.0

results back for coronavirus and it came back positive we're just kind of

1:49.1

trying to feel our way into this new normal I must must level with you, we level with the British public.

1:55.2

More families, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.

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