Summary
An injection of news. After many many months of reporting on Covid-19, Adam has only gone and got the vaccine himself! Our newly immunised presenter celebrates by asking Professor Sir John Bell – the first person to predict life could be more normal by the spring – whether the UK is still on track. And election week is here, so we catch up with the campaigns in Hartlepool and Wales.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Danny Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The Studio Director was Nick Jones. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's Tuesday, it's 20 past 12, and I'm getting my vaccine. |
| 0:11.0 | A big moment in newscast history. Well it is for me and I'm at the Crick Institute |
| 0:16.3 | which is a biomedical research facility next to St. Pancras Station about a 50 minute |
| 0:22.2 | walk from my house and I've actually always wanted to see inside it, so this is a great excuse to do that, and to get vaccinated. |
| 0:30.0 | Can I get your booking reference for today? |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, booking reference. |
| 0:32.6 | Is that different from my NHS number? |
| 0:35.3 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:36.3 | Great. |
| 0:37.3 | No COVID symptoms in the last month? |
| 0:39.7 | Nope. |
| 0:40.7 | And no travel abroad recently? I wish no. We all wish. Great, you're all checked and |
| 0:48.1 | We'll be with down with you shortly. Cool, thanks very much. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay, through the door. How do I sanitise my hands and hold the microphone at the same time? |
| 1:00.0 | Hello. |
| 1:02.0 | You don't mind, I'm just going to take both of your temperature. |
| 1:04.0 | I have some information on the vaccine for you. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay, thank you. |
| 1:08.0 | And if you just give us one minute, we'll have someone to see you soon. |
| 1:12.0 | Great, thank you. Okay, I'm going to you soon. Great thank you. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay I'm going to have a few details from you. Do you have your NHS number? |
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