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🗓️ 5 April 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is admitted to hospital for tests, ten days after testing positive for coronavirus. Adam chats to Laura, Chris and Fergus about this and the resignation of Scotland’s chief medical officer for breaking the lockdown rules.
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0:04.7 | Well, Chris, I actually had a relatively coronavirus free weekend. |
0:08.8 | I thought I'd give myself some actual time off from the news, |
0:12.1 | and then I sort of checked in to see what |
0:13.6 | was happening about 6 p.m. Sunday evening and your phone went bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing b i i mean i know we used to say this a lot when we're doing Brexit |
0:23.5 | cast, but I mean today in news terms has just been off the scale. So the stuff |
0:27.9 | about the Scottish Chief Medical Officer, astonishing, obviously an address from the Queen. officer astonishing. |
0:32.8 | obviously an address from the Queen we have so rarely so that was huge as well and |
0:38.2 | then 10 past 9 inbox in comes the news of the Prime Minister being in hospital. I can't remember a news day, a news day like it. |
0:48.0 | So it's a Sunday night, but we're going to reassemble the rest of the gang so we can talk about all those big news stories in this |
0:53.7 | emergency episode of coronavirus newscast. The coronavirus newscost from the |
0:58.7 | BBC. What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? I got some test results back for coronavirus and it came back positive. |
1:09.0 | We're just kind of trying to feel our way into this new normal. I must level with you, we level with the |
1:15.2 | British public. More families, many more families, are going to lose loved ones |
1:20.8 | before their time. |
1:21.8 | Relax, we're doing great. |
1:24.0 | It all will pay us. |
1:25.8 | Laura, you're not a jaw hitting the floor kind of person, |
1:28.6 | but I imagine it came pretty close |
1:30.5 | when you got the email or maybe a phone call or a text from Downing Street about |
1:33.8 | the Prime Minister going into hospital? |
1:36.1 | It did and it was a bit like deja vu because I had the same feeling about 10 days ago when I |
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