Lockdown is easing, but as the beaches and parks are filling up, are we heading for a second spike?

The worry is that we open up now, autumn comes and it comes back full-throated. It's extremely serious.

In a race against time and biology, what are the scientists learned about how to fight the virus?

Italy was the first to just trap the pharmacy cabinet at it, but if it turns out that even surviving can be pretty bad, then that slightly changes all of the calculus.

This week marks five long months since the World Health Organization first declared a public health emergency.

But so much about the virus remains a mystery.

You're listening to stories of our times. is a

stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday times. I'm Manveen Rana.

Today, what do we know about the virus so far and is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber. I get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

Right, so I'm walking around my garden and I can't see the tortoise. There's no way you can see a tortoise who doesn't want to be seen

but I have the secret weapon of my Bluetooth and it has not locked on yet.

Tom Whipple is the Times Science Editor and surprisingly,

there's a connection between his pet tortoise and how we're supposed to fight a second spike of the virus.

Do you really have a tortoise called Sophocles?

I have a tortoise called Sophocles.

It's because he's originally a Greek tortoise now

respect his heritage. Of course. Yes. So I had a strangely pertinent

experience with my tortoise because I decided to glue a Bluetooth

tracker onto my tortoise. Like a lot of tortoises he gets lost quite a lot. My idea

behind this was if my tortoise went missing I would press a button on my phone and my phone would go beep beep beep beep as I get closer to my tortoise and it would make the tortoise play a tune.

And it's locked on. So now I need to click find and hopefully the tortoise will claim me its fanfare.

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