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BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Boris Johnson resumed his duties as prime minister today, starting with a speech outside No 10 urging the public to stick with the lockdown restrictions. Adam, Laura, Chris and Fergus look at what's in the PM’s in tray and discuss how far away we might be from ‘phase two’ of the coronavirus response. Plus, Izzy Wheatley tells us how zoos are responding to the crisis and gives a tour around the panda enclosure. Producers: Frankie Tobi, Nick Rotherham, Ben Weisz and Natalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

Hey, Fergus, how are you?

0:06.2

I'm fine at them.

0:07.2

Also, more importantly than how we're doing,

0:09.1

how are the two participants in the Oxford trial

0:12.7

of the potential coronavirus vaccine?

0:14.8

Well, I've had an update from Elisa Granato,

0:17.7

who is the first volunteer to be immunized as part of the trial.

0:23.7

I spoke to her yesterday morning.

0:25.8

She'd just come back from a long walk

0:28.1

to the vaccine clinic to have her first follow-up,

0:31.6

had some bloods taken.

0:33.3

Friday, they did another six volunteers as part of the trial.

0:37.0

And I think they may have done a hundred today,

0:38.7

so they're really getting on with it now.

0:40.4

Any side effects so far?

0:42.4

No, it feels absolutely great.

0:44.0

Never been better, actually.

0:46.0

I'm just out and about living my life.

0:48.1

And I actually went to my first full-up this morning,

0:51.1

which is very exciting.

0:51.9

So this was the first time where they took a blood sample

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