Summary
The PM says that UK has "past the peak" of the coronavirus pandemic and announces that he'll be setting out plans for how lockdown restrictions will be eased this time next week.
And are you missing the pub? We are. So we speak to two pub owners about how social distancing measures could affect their industry. We're also missing a good pub quiz so Anne Hegerty from The Chase hosts a virtual one for us!
Producers: Frankie Tobi, Ben Weisz and Harriet Noble Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We're going to start tonight with an email you got today, Laura, from Mo, who has been |
| 0:09.3 | part of the podcast family for years, listens to us all the time, and she got in touch with us to |
| 0:14.8 | tell us about her mom Eileen, who died a couple of days ago of COVID-19 in the care home and Mo has given us permission to read out some of the email. |
| 0:27.6 | She has. It starts. Our mom was 93 on the 15th of April. We couldn't celebrate with her due to lockdown. |
| 0:35.4 | The Fantastic Care Home staff made a cake and gave her a party. We hadn't seen her for six weeks. |
| 0:41.2 | On the 17th of April we had a call to say she had a temperature and was a bit |
| 0:45.3 | poorly. We thought it was a recurring infection. On the 19th we were told she wasn't too bad and the |
| 0:51.5 | worst place she could be was in hospital. |
| 0:54.0 | She had Alzheimer's and vascular dementia. Our hearts were breaking as we felt |
| 1:00.0 | she would think that we'd forgotten her. |
| 1:02.0 | She started getting worse. The deputy |
| 1:04.9 | manager said they'd bought tablet computers for the patients and suggested a |
| 1:09.0 | Zoom call which we arranged for her grandchildren and my brother. |
| 1:13.0 | On Wednesday the 22nd of April, |
| 1:15.1 | I called to see how things were. |
| 1:17.4 | She had tested positive for COVID |
| 1:19.6 | and she'd deteriorated. |
| 1:21.4 | No point in Zoom. |
| 1:23.0 | Daniel from the care home went back to her room and sat with her so that she wasn't alone. |
| 1:30.0 | She passed away at 3.45 that afternoon with this wonderful young man staying with her until the very end. |
| 1:38.0 | Can you imagine sitting with a COVID-19 positive great-grandmother with basic protection so he could phone us |
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