Summary
There’s no back to school until at least 8th March in England, on the day we finally hear about hotel quarantine. We hear from Rebecca who's stuck in a one of them in New Zealand. Adam, Laura and Hugh talk about the UK's latest travel restrictions and how we might come out of them.
Track listing in the student special: Aya Anne - Better (featuring King Marino) Cole LC - Grip N Slide H33RA - I DON'T MIND Kastro - outside The Mirror Ball Test - Amuse Bouche THEO - Jealous YazMean - AVENUE YourBoyWonder - DIFFERENT
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Jack Suddaby, Kameron Virk, Georgia Coan, Ben Weisz Reporter: De'Graft Mensah Senior Producer: Rick Kelsey Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello, it's finally happened. |
| 0:06.4 | We've got the new rules for international arrivals coming into the UK who will have to stay in hotels near the airport rather than isolating at home. |
| 0:17.0 | It won't apply to a lot of people because it's only the real hot spots, so South America, South Africa and Portugal. |
| 0:24.0 | And this is the UK doing something that some other countries have been doing for ages. |
| 0:28.0 | And one of the countries that's got this system in a very sophisticated way is New Zealand. And we can chat to somebody who is in the |
| 0:35.2 | New Zealand system right now. It's Rebecca. Hello. So Rebecca, describe the |
| 0:40.8 | scene for me. Where are you? I am sat at my desk in my hotel room. My bed's about two feet away from me and my |
| 0:48.8 | windows just behind me so I can see out onto the street. I can see normal life happening but I just can't quite get into it yet and unfortunately my window doesn't open. |
| 0:59.2 | It's not a whole lot of it doesn't open it's a sealed pain of glass so there's not a whole lot of fresh air in here. |
| 1:05.0 | Okay and dare I ask what day are you on and day of what? |
| 1:10.4 | I am on day five of 14 and I mistakenly thought I was on day six because the fact the day that you |
| 1:18.5 | arrive counts is day zero not day one and you have to complete a fall 24 hours before that's your day one finished. |
| 1:25.3 | And so did you get off the plane and are you in Auckland or where are you? |
| 1:30.2 | Yes, I'm in Auckland in the capital. So when you arrived at Auckland airport six days ago, you got off the plane as normal, I'm assuming, and then what happened? |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, so pretty much, we were lined up. |
| 1:45.0 | Everyone that got off my flight, it was the only flight that was arriving at the time, |
| 1:48.0 | the airport was a complete ghost town. |
| 1:50.0 | We were lined up with two meters distancing between myself and the other passengers. |
| 1:55.0 | We went through three processing systems where our landing card was checked and our health documents were checked and our visas were checked and then we were |
| 2:04.4 | lined up in a second queue to find out where we would be quarantining because it's a lottery and you don't find out until you arrive |
| 2:10.0 | where you're going and I was told that I would be quarantining in Stamford Plaza, which is a very nice hotel. I'm very lucky. |
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