Summary
Nightclubs had high high hopes for a living.
Two jabs will be needed to get in to a nightclub from September. How do venue owners in England feel, on the day they were allowed to reopen? Adam chats it all through with a club owner... and Fergus and Vicki.
Also, what's going on with cybersecurity at the moment? Media reports say a load of people have been targeted with phone malware. The BBC’s Security Correspondent Gordon Corera explains all.
Today's Newscast was made by Caitlin Hanrahan with Danny Wittenburg and Alix Pickles. Ben Andrews is the Studio Director. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, first of all, thank you to everyone who looked after the podcast while I was away. |
| 0:09.2 | Second of all, it's good to be back. |
| 0:11.7 | I think my main observation for having been abroad to a green |
| 0:14.8 | list country is the sheer number of different types of tests you have to do. So I did a |
| 0:19.8 | PCR test before I went which was done in a clinic by a nurse, and resulted in a very valuable |
| 0:25.8 | piece of paper, which I had to get out quite a lot of times. |
| 0:29.1 | Then I did a lateral flow test in my hotel room before I flew back home, but that had to be supervised by a nurse |
| 0:36.0 | over the internet. And then when I got home I did a PCR test in my living room, which I then |
| 0:42.0 | sent off to be processed by a lab and if I was |
| 0:45.6 | back from an amber country I'd have to do even more than that. It is a lot of |
| 0:49.7 | hassle but it's all worth it to be allowed back in Blighty so I can be back with you for another |
| 0:54.8 | episode of Newscast. |
| 0:56.1 | Newscast. |
| 0:57.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:58.8 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:03.1 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 1:07.4 | Combined with contact tasting, testing, tracing, tracing Tacing for you. |
| 1:13.0 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm a vegan so of course I don't like meatballs. |
| 1:18.0 | Next slide please. |
| 1:19.0 | Blair Blair, Blair, |
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