Summary
Boris Johnson warns the nation to be responsible when pubs reopen this Saturday, but Radio 1’s Arielle Free tells us why she won’t be one of those going to her local this weekend. We explain the changes in quarantine rules for people arriving back in England after travelling abroad and what that could mean for holidays. And James Gallagher explains some of the context behind new care home death statistics.
Studio Director: Tom Burchell Producers: Harriet Noble, Seren Jones and Natalie Ktena Output Editor: Frankie Tobi Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Now I know you will all be very excited at the news. |
| 0:07.2 | The government is going to host a daily televised briefing every day from the autumn onwards in a big shakeup of how the government |
| 0:16.0 | briefs journalists. I know I'm excited and I just wanted to give you the benefit of |
| 0:19.7 | my experience on this because when I was in Brussels I went to the European Commission's |
| 0:24.3 | daily midday televised briefing so I know what they are like and I'm going to give |
| 0:29.0 | you my five top most sad phrases in that briefing. |
| 0:33.0 | Number five, I refer you to my earlier comment. |
| 0:36.0 | That's when they can't be bothered saying what they said two days ago. |
| 0:39.0 | Number four, we'll get back to you bilaterally on that. |
| 0:42.0 | That's when they don't know the answer and they're going to call you back. |
| 0:44.8 | Number three, we don't answer if questions. They didn't like speculating. In second place, it was, |
| 0:51.2 | we do not comment on comments because they don't like getting involved |
| 0:55.3 | in conversations with other people and my favorite favorite one, the number one place |
| 1:00.9 | was a version of that by the spokesman who said, |
| 1:03.7 | you're inviting me to shop in a rich market of comment |
| 1:07.3 | from which I will refrain from making any purchases. |
| 1:10.9 | That is the sort of thing you may be in store for when the government |
| 1:14.6 | starts doing televised briefings from the autumn. Don't say I didn't warn you. |
| 1:18.6 | Welcome to this edition of the coronavirus newscast. |
| 1:21.6 | The coronavirus newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:24.3 | What is this virus? |
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