Summary
Social gatherings of more than six people will be illegal in England from Monday - with some exemptions - after a steep rise in coronavirus cases. Adam is joined by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Fergus Walsh, Branwen Jeffreys and Nick Eardley.
Studio director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weisz, Jo Deahl Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's one of those days. |
| 0:07.9 | It's Tuesday evening. |
| 0:10.1 | I just recorded the latest edition of the podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Laura gave us the latest on that explosive story about the Brexit process that we were talking |
| 0:17.9 | about yesterday. |
| 0:19.2 | Then Fergus gave us the update on the coronavirus cases and we found out about schools and |
| 0:25.1 | universities from Bramman Jeffries, our education editor. |
| 0:28.7 | Then the government said that Boris Johnson is going to announce some changes to coronavirus restrictions |
| 0:36.0 | that will affect the whole of England. Luckily our political correspondent |
| 0:41.4 | Nick Ardley is still working. |
| 0:43.0 | Nick, what are these changes going to be? |
| 0:45.0 | Hi Adam, basically the headline to all this is |
| 0:48.0 | you won't be able to have a social gathering of more than six people indoors or outdoors. |
| 0:55.2 | Now that's kind of, if you're talking about outdoors, that's roughly what the rules are just now, |
| 0:59.6 | but this is going to give the police more powers to break up groups and find people if they don't comply. |
| 1:07.2 | It also counts indoors and that is a bit of a change because at the moment you can have two households |
| 1:12.4 | meet up indoors and that can be as big as you want. |
| 1:15.9 | But that's not going to be the case anymore. |
| 1:17.6 | So it's down to six. |
| 1:18.8 | So for example, if you've got two families of five, they're going to have to pick the favorites to go along to dinner or whatever it is. |
| 1:25.4 | I mean there are going to be exemptions to this, so the office, schools, universities, |
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