They Think Covid’s Not Over
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
England’s lockdown rules will end next week but Boris Johnson says people must be cautious. He's also spoken out against the racist abuse received by the England players after last night's game.
Chris Mason sits in for Adam and speaks to David James, England’s first black goalkeeper, who was at Wembley on Sunday night.
And, as concern builds up about a new wave of long Covid, Professor Danny Altmann explains why it's important to create a test for the little-understood condition.
Today’s Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg and Georgia Coan. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi Matthew, it's Chris here. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, Chris. How are we? |
| 0:07.2 | I'm all right, thanks. I hope you're all right. |
| 0:08.8 | Thanks for letting me give you a bell. |
| 0:10.5 | Adam said he'd pass on your number. |
| 0:12.8 | Adam's gone off on his holidays. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm doing newscasts for a couple of days. |
| 0:15.4 | I thought I'd give you a ring and find out how your footballing weekend was because you were saying to Adam that you |
| 0:21.1 | really wanted to try and get a ticket. I got one and then I was let down. What? I had the best |
| 0:28.7 | Saturday ever and the worst Sunday morning ever. Oh, blithely. Hang on Matthews. Let's just rewind. |
| 0:33.7 | So tell me how you got your ticket. So there was this guy message me on Twitter said he's got one ticket left. So he was like, |
| 0:42.1 | he gave me the price and I said, yeah, I'm happy with that. What was it? How much did it cost? |
| 0:46.4 | 1,600. It's better than the three grand everybody was throwing out there. |
| 0:55.0 | And he said, |
| 0:55.7 | uh, uh, |
| 0:56.0 | do it in cash. |
| 0:57.8 | And then it got to Sunday morning. |
| 1:00.7 | I just got a message from her on Twitter. |
| 1:03.3 | I was like, |
| 1:03.9 | oh, |
| 1:04.2 | I wonder. |
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