Summary
What are the new Covid rules in England? What do we know about the Omicron variant? And what's been the fallout since that No 10 Christmas party video was leaked? Adam, Laura and Fergus talk through one of the busiest days in politics for a while...
Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Ros Jones. Ash Taylor was the studio director.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's been a big old news day when it comes to our handling of coronavirus. |
| 0:09.0 | England is going to go into Plan B because the umukron variant is spreading very quickly. |
| 0:14.8 | And if that wasn't enough, it's been a huge day at Westminster with a lot of politics |
| 0:18.6 | around what did or didn't happen in that event in Downing Street on the 18th of December. |
| 0:24.8 | And also quite a lot of stuff has unfolded even just since the last episode of newscast. |
| 0:29.9 | So let's get fully caught up on this episode of newscast, which has got a bit of a classic |
| 0:34.6 | COVID feel because Laura's obviously on the move from place to place and then Fergus is |
| 0:39.2 | going to join us to give us the freshest, freshest science. |
| 0:42.4 | Newscast. |
| 0:43.4 | Newscast from the BBC that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal |
| 0:48.9 | is. |
| 0:49.9 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:53.6 | Combined with contract-taste, contact-tasting, testing, tracing through years. |
| 0:59.8 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatball. |
| 1:04.0 | Next slide please. |
| 1:05.0 | Blair, Blair, Blair. |
| 1:06.8 | Loose, loose, loose. |
| 1:09.2 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:11.5 | And it's Laura walking along. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm trying to put my headphone, microphone inside my coat. |
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