The Second Wave
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The Times
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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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A sudden rise in coronavirus cases has sparked alarm and a strengthening of public health measures. As of today, much of the UK is living by "the rule of six". Could this be the beginning of a second wave?
Guest: Tom Whipple, science editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | How quickly we forgot. There was a time when watching COVID briefings and tracking |
| 0:08.7 | infection numbers seemed like a national pastime. |
| 0:16.2 | But then, the pubs and restaurants reopened. |
| 0:18.4 | People ate out to help out. |
| 0:24.9 | Town centers came back to life and the government told us as long as the our number was below one we wouldn't need another lockdown but now UK's our number or rate of COVID-19 |
| 0:32.1 | transmission has risen above one, meaning the |
| 0:35.1 | coronavirus epidemic is growing. A study by Imperial College for the government |
| 0:40.5 | estimated the our number could already be as high as 1.7 and coronavirus cases are |
| 0:47.8 | thought to be doubling every week. Is this the second wave we've all been warned of? |
| 0:54.0 | To the UK now where coronavirus cases are soaring among young people. |
| 0:58.0 | It showed nearly 3,000 new infections. |
| 1:00.0 | Real concerns about how fast these cases are rising. |
| 1:02.6 | A big jump. The big question is, can we deal with this? |
| 1:08.2 | As the threat of COVID looms large again, as of today, most of the country is learning to live with the rule of six. |
| 1:16.1 | We're introducing the rule of six. You must not meet socially in groups of more than six and if you do you will be breaking the law. |
| 1:27.0 | As your Prime Minister I must do what is necessary to stop the spread of the virus and to save lives. |
| 1:37.0 | This is stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. Today, is the UK really heading for a second wave? |
| 1:47.0 | Hello, I am Tom Whipple and I'm the science editor at the Times. |
| 1:58.0 | And Tom, when did you start to worry that we might be on the cusp of a second wave? Was there a moment that made |
| 2:06.2 | you think, oh here we go? I guess the thing was we looked across at the continent who throughout |
| 2:11.6 | this have been a few weeks ahead of us and we began to see these |
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