Summary
Covid cases top 50,000 in the UK
The number of new coronavirus cases recorded in the UK reached 52,009 today, going over 50,000 for the first time since July. Former health secretary and chair of the Health and Social Committee Jeremy Hunt tells Laura, Chris and Fergus that we can expect a difficult winter unless the Government encouarges more people to get jabs and boosters.
Also the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove says that countries need to think about the rest of the world before they roll out boosters for their own.
Today’s Newscast was made by Rick Kelsey, with Danny Wittenberg and Maz Ebtehaj. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | Newscasters, we've got an upgrade this week because Adam's on his holidays, |
| 0:07.9 | so we've got Fergus on for our Thursday. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi Fergus. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, Adam, hi Laura, how you doing? |
| 0:12.8 | He just said hi Adam, he's not here. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm sorry, I'm so used to it, I'm happy with my anonymity even when Adam's not here. |
| 0:21.6 | Oh dear. |
| 0:23.0 | Now listen, I've thought having seized the reins without being away, |
| 0:25.0 | it's time for a rebrand. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:27.0 | You know, newscasts been around long enough. |
| 0:28.0 | True. |
| 0:29.0 | It is now newscats. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh, thank God, I thought you were going to say we were being accessed already. |
| 0:34.3 | Well we live with that fear, don't we, every week. |
| 0:36.3 | But yeah, Newscats, because if you heard last night's at Newscast, which I was presenting, |
| 0:41.4 | yes. |
| 0:42.4 | The star of the show was Faddo. |
| 0:43.4 | It was a cat. And if you're watching the TV version, you can see a lovely picture. |
| 0:47.2 | And Faddo there with some focused eyes. I'm struggling to... |
| 0:52.1 | Here's my powers of description might leave me here for the |
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