Daily: Plan B panic stations on COVID

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It’s COVID Groundhog Day with cases spiking, the Government dithering and the NHS under critical pressure all over again. As Sajid Javid warns of 100,000 cases a day soon, health commentator Roy Lilley tells us why the Government’s“ Plan B” is in disarray. How fast should they move to tighter restrictions? And can they make it stick with a population that believes the pandemic is done? “What is it going to take for someone in the cabinet to say ‘Yes, we need Plan B’?.” “Sajid Javid standing up and lecturing the nation with a Union Jack behind him was absolutely ridiculous.” “Who actually runs the NHS? Is it Sajid Javid or the Daily Mail?” “Let’s have that firebreak and let’s enjoy Christmas.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.5	The predicted autumn spike in the pandemic seems to be here.
1:14.6	Segy Javid is warning of the potential of 100,000 new cases a day is pretty soon.
1:19.2	The government is now under pressure to enact what it's calling plan B a return to the
1:22.8	homework and mask mandates we saw in mid-lockdown. On Wednesday the UK
1:26.4	reported 223 COVID deaths, their biggest daily rise since March, and the
1:30.9	seven-day average of new cases is now around 40,000. The UK now has
1:34.4	one of the highest weekly rates of new reported cases in the world and there's
1:38.5	now concern about the new AY.4.2 variants, the Delta variant variant, which is 10 to 15 percent more
1:46.2	infectious than its predecessor. The head of the NHS confederation has warned the
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