Summary
Most of England's Covid laws are likely to end in two weeks... So Fergus and Vicki join Adam and answer some of the day's biggest questions, following government's announcement: Do I need to keep wearing a face covering on the train? Will nightclubs open later this summer? And why is government announcing all this today?
Today's Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The Studio Manager was Russ Newlove. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
Got a question about the Covid restrictions? Email us on newscast@bbc.co.uk...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, some people are calling it The Big Bang. |
| 0:08.0 | Boris Johnson has just announced that pretty much every legal restriction on our movements and what we do and who we see will in theory be lifted |
| 0:17.0 | in England from the 19th of July. |
| 0:20.1 | But at the press conference with the Prime Minister there was a pretty huge but. |
| 0:24.7 | I don't want people to feel that this is as it were the moment to get D-Mob happy. |
| 0:30.1 | This is the end of the of COVID. |
| 0:32.3 | It is very far from the end of the of COVID it is very far from the end of dealing with this virus. |
| 0:36.8 | To be happy or not to be too happy that's the dilemma now and it's going to be on all of us |
| 0:42.0 | because we are decisively moving from this |
| 0:44.0 | phase where the government tells us what to do to having to work it all out for ourselves |
| 0:49.2 | and that is what we're going to dedicate this whole episode of newscast too. |
| 0:53.2 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:55.8 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 1:00.0 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented television. |
| 1:04.3 | Combined with contract taste, contact tasting, testing tracing for you. |
| 1:10.0 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm a vegan so of course I don't like meatballs. |
| 1:14.7 | Next slide please. |
| 1:15.6 | Blair, Blair, Blair, lose, lose. |
| 1:20.5 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:22.0 | And Fergus at least three meters away. |
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