Summary
There’s talk of us being at the start of a third wave as we hit a "bump in the road". BBC Scotland Health Correspondent Lisa Summers joins the team to share whether the "cautious optimism" she felt at the start of the vaccine rollout is still there. Nicola Sturgeon has “paused” plans for lockdown easing in some parts of the country. Meanwhile, Portugal has been removed from the UK’s green list of countries with hopes of summer holidays dashed. The team pick up on the varying approaches to lockdown easing. And as we edge towards June 21, England’s final stage of their roadmap, is Scotland’s moving away from an ‘elimination’ strategy? And when can we officially declare the pandemic over?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to |
| 0:15.0 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.9 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:19.2 | coming out of Holyroote and Westminster It is 12 minutes past two on Thursday the 3rd of June. I'm Lucy |
| 0:26.3 | White. I am in Edinburgh today which feels a bit strange and I'm joined virtually by... |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Phil Simm. I'm at the Scottish Parliament Hi, I'm Lindsay, political correspondent in Edinburgh |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Rossi Eip Sunday, political correspondent in London |
| 0:42.9 | I'm Nick Erdley at Westminster, guessing that it was my turn to say that |
| 0:46.5 | because I've not got the script in front of me, sorry |
| 0:48.8 | And since I'm the guest, I went last, I'm Lisa Summers, health correspondent |
| 0:52.7 | and I'm literally, you know, a few |
| 0:55.2 | steps upstairs from Lucy in a different cubicle in Edinburgh. Welcome back, Lisa. Yeah, hello. |
| 1:00.8 | Love to be here. This is kind of strange. Summers has arrived. Yeah, it's kind of strange |
| 1:07.5 | for me because I do, I hardly ever am in Edinburgh. It's lovely to be here today. |
| 1:12.2 | And I thought, oh, it was great because Lisa's doing it. |
| 1:14.5 | So it means at least I'll have like a buddy in the studio. |
| 1:16.9 | But no, COVID and the size of the studios in Edinburgh, I mean, we're in separate studios, even though we're in the same place. |
| 1:23.1 | And Phil, you're basically just across the road in the parliament. |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.5 | So we're all... It's a fitting day to talk about COVID, isn't it? |
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