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Test, track and trace

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How will government’s new test, track and trace strategy work? BBC Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellen-Jones, joins Adam, Laura and co to talk about the new NHS mobile app trial, the ins and outs of manual contract-tracing and the wonder that is the Isle of Wight.

Producers: Nick Rotherham, Jo Deahl, Ben Weisz, Natalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

Today, a small part of the UK entirely surrounded by sea

0:09.6

became the center of the world, according to the health secretary met Hancock where the

0:14.9

Isle of White goes Britain follows and the reason Matt Hancock was saying

0:19.3

that is because the Isle of White this week will be testing out the NHS's new coronavirus phone app.

0:28.0

So how's this going down on the Isle of Wight?

0:30.0

Let's speak to someone who was born there.

0:32.0

It's the former Olympic heptathlete Kelly Sutherland.

0:36.1

Hello Kelly.

0:36.8

Afternoon, Adam. So are you, you were at Isle of White born and bred?

0:42.1

Yes, I was born there in 1976 and I left there when I went to

0:46.2

university so I was there for a good 18 years and my family still lived there got

0:50.1

quite a lot of family. Give us the top three coolest facts about the Isle of White.

0:54.7

We have red squirrels on the Isle of White, so you don't need to go to the latest Tripsie

0:58.4

Red Squirrels.

0:59.9

We probably have the best garlic in the world and have a festival to celebrate it.

1:04.0

And this is one of my favorites because I used to do this when I was younger.

1:08.0

It's the most haunted island in the world and I used to go ghost hunting with my friends before I left so it's very very spooky

1:16.8

because it's very very old. What's the scariest ghost you've come across if any?

1:21.1

God is going to make me sound crazy.

1:24.0

There's a place called Kay Knighton, which is just a couple of gate posts.

1:29.0

They used to be a big house that was burnt down, I think, in the Georgian times.

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