Summary
Key Sage member Professor Sir Ian Boyd takes your questions.
Should the Government have placed the country in lockdown earlier? Sir Ian thinks they should have. He also talks us through how the influential group advises government, and answers your questions.
And how is Facebook handling misinformation during the pandemic? Mark Zuckerberg has been speaking to the BBC’s Simon Jack.
Producers: Frankie Tobi, Harriet Noble, Georgia Coan Studio Director: William Allott Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Tonight, welcome to, oh, and I'm going to say this right. |
| 0:08.1 | Acropolis now. |
| 0:09.7 | Because... |
| 0:12.4 | You never told me you were going to start the program with one of your puns. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:15.8 | Okay, you've got to continue now you've started. |
| 0:16.8 | And the reason I've done it is because we're going to cross now to our colleague, |
| 0:20.3 | foreign correspondent Quentin Somerville, who seems to almost be on holiday in Greece. |
| 0:25.7 | Quentin how have you managed that? |
| 0:27.7 | It does feel like a bit of a holiday actually. Normally I'm a Middle East correspondent |
| 0:32.1 | but I've been sat at home for so long they said how about going to Athens and I jumped at the chance |
| 0:36.7 | just to get on a plane again and this is one of the few places where you can get on a plane |
| 0:42.1 | because the Greeks are beginning to try and open up their |
| 0:46.7 | tourism industry again. The Acropolis opened this week to tourists. Foreign tourists can't come here yet. If you arrive as we did today |
| 0:55.7 | at Athens Airport you get a swab stuck down your throat. They take that swab, they analyze it. For 24 hours we are stuck in this government hotel. We can't leave. |
| 1:05.6 | We're under quarantine. If we leave it's a 5,000 euro fine, which obviously the BBC |
| 1:10.8 | wouldn't be very happy about. so we're stuck here tonight. |
| 1:14.0 | We get the test results tomorrow. |
| 1:15.8 | Normally what happens if you're if you're arriving in Greece, |
| 1:19.8 | you then have to do a two-week quarantine regardless whether you're positive or negative. |
| 1:25.3 | What the Greeks are going to do is in a few weeks time from June 15th, they're going to get rid of that |
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