The Coronavirus Crisis
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We unpick the latest statement from the PM on Coronavirus and hear from one of the MPs who is self-isolating. And Americast’s Anthony Zurcher joins us to react to Donald Trump banning all travel to the US from the Schengen area.
Producer: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | So we've had a sense for a while about how big an issue coronavirus is going to become, |
| 0:10.0 | but if anyone was in any doubt as far as the UK is concerned we got a huge |
| 0:15.1 | sense today from the Prime Minister and the senior scientific and medical |
| 0:19.5 | advisors of just how big a deal it is. That's right, coronavirus is here, it's real, it's going to affect many, many, many, many |
| 0:27.6 | thousands of people and we are in it for the long haul, no question. |
| 0:31.4 | And actually the thing is that experts are back and everybody |
| 0:34.4 | wants to be reassured by politicians or by medical experts but anyone who says |
| 0:39.6 | they definitely know what's going to happen to all of us is lying because it's a new virus and we just |
| 0:44.7 | can't tell. |
| 0:45.7 | And also this virus doesn't just infect people, it affects every area of national and international |
| 0:51.4 | life. It's like quite astonishing actually. |
| 0:53.6 | So loads of questions to ask and grapple with and try and answer and we've got plenty of time to do it. |
| 0:58.8 | Welcome to newscast. |
| 0:59.8 | Newscast. |
| 1:00.8 | Newscast. |
| 1:01.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:03.3 | Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do. |
| 1:07.8 | You are a white privileged male. |
| 1:09.6 | No one's got to include what Brexit is. |
| 1:12.2 | This is not an elitist issue. This is a quality of life issue. |
| 1:17.0 | I urge everyone to find closure. Let the healing begin. |
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