Summary
Adam is joined by Laura, Fergus and Chris to talk through the day’s coronavirus news. BBC Reporters across the UK patrol the country’s parks looking for people not following the government’s rules to tackle coronavirus. And we take ‘nice-olation’ on the road, chatting to Marie Lennon from BBC Wiltshire about how people are managing being stuck indoors.
Producers: Jo Deahl, Ione Wells and Nick Rotherham Assistant Editors: Sam Bonham and Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | Hi everyone, when last we spoke I was walking home from the studio |
| 0:07.6 | and getting a bit emotional about the website for volunteering to help the NHS in England to deal with |
| 0:14.6 | coronavirus. Well now I am at home, it's a day later, and I have signed up to |
| 0:20.5 | become a volunteer for the NHS in England to help with coronavirus. |
| 0:24.0 | So what you do is you go to a website run by the Royal Voluntary Service called Good Sam |
| 0:30.2 | app as in Good Samaritan app. So that's Good Sam app.org slash NHS. Then you click |
| 0:38.8 | on join us today then you fill in a really easy, give your name, email address, date of birth, mobile phone number, address. |
| 0:48.0 | You have to come up with a password, but you have to do that with every website these days. |
| 0:51.0 | Then you have to say if you've got a DBS certificate, which is like a criminal |
| 0:54.8 | records check, I don't have one of them, but they seem fine with that. Then you have to |
| 0:59.6 | upload some ID, like a passport or a driving license or some utility bills and then you get |
| 1:05.6 | asked if you've got access to transport or not. Now I don't have any access to |
| 1:10.5 | transport either a car or a bike so I can't do any of the tasks that's like picking people up from hospital |
| 1:17.0 | when they're better or delivering food or medicines to people who are at home. So I'm going to be a check-in and chat volunteer, which means my job will be to call people |
| 1:26.4 | who are at home either because they're self-isulating or because they're in that very vulnerable group |
| 1:30.9 | where they've got to stay at home for ages on their own with no contact |
| 1:34.4 | and basically keep them company for a bit which will kind of be like a one-on-one episode of newscasts. |
| 1:41.1 | The coronavirus new Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:43.8 | What is this virus? |
| 1:45.0 | How does it spread? |
| 1:46.2 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
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