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All Out Politics

Coronavirus: Getting the message across - whatever it takes

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2156 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A big global health pandemic needs big decisions from political leaders. This week Adam Boulton and guests discuss the government's approach to to handling the coronavirus crisis.
An additional budget to prop up the economy, advice to avoid bars, clubs and theatres and school closures across the UK are just some of the measures that have been announced so far.
Both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor are promising to do 'whatever it takes' to ease the burden of the virus.
Joining Adam this week are comedian and expert in viral bioinformatics Ria Lina and Sky's political correspondent Tamara Cohen.

Transcript

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0:42.0

Hello, welcome to the All-Out Politics podcast from Sky News. I'm Adam Bolton this week.

0:50.8

We're going to be talking about the big decisions facing Boris Johnson's government

0:54.9

because of guess what, coronavirus, what that means for schools and for people now forced to work from home.

1:02.2

Joining me now are the comedian and expert in viral bioinformatics, Ria Lina,

1:09.2

and Sky's political correspondent Tamara Cohen, both of them in

1:14.4

isolation of one kind or another.

1:22.0

Well, of course, what was the big news this week was we actually got some news conferences

1:27.1

on a regular basis from Boris Johnson.

1:30.3

This is what he had to say.

1:31.9

Good afternoon, everybody.

1:33.0

Thank you very much for coming.

1:34.9

I wanted to bring everyone up to date with the national fight back against the new coronavirus.

1:41.5

Last week, we asked everyone to stay at home if you had one of two key

1:47.5

symptoms, a high temperature or a new and continuous cough. If you or anyone in your household

1:58.3

has one of those two symptoms, then you should stay at home for 14 days.

2:03.3

We need people to start working from home where they possibly can, and you should avoid pubs,

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