Summary
Scotland sees record high Covid infections, but is the virus the threat it once was? As two years pass since the World Health Organisation declared a global pandemic, BBC Scotland’s Health and Social Care Correspondent Lisa Summers joins the team to talk about the latest increase in Covid-19 infections in Scotland, the latest variant, and what it means for public health and the NHS. As other legal restrictions end, will the extension on face-covering rules by First Minister Nicola Strugeon have a noticeable impact on stopping the virus' spread?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.3 | It is 17 minutes past two. On |
| 0:22.6 | Thursday the 17th of March, |
| 0:24.6 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow |
| 0:26.5 | and today I'm joined by |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist based |
| 0:30.6 | at the Scottish Parliament. And I'm |
| 0:32.5 | Raj Deepsandu, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:35.2 | And I'm Lisa Summers, Scotland |
| 0:36.5 | Health Correspondent. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:40.5 | Lisa is here. |
| 0:41.3 | Lisa is back. |
| 0:43.1 | So, this means one of two things. |
| 0:45.9 | Is that a good news? |
| 0:48.1 | Or it's not such good news. |
| 0:53.2 | And I think it's kind of, yeah, we're seeing COVID cases rising again, aren't we? We're also very close to two-year anniversary of the first ever lockdown in March 2020. |
| 1:01.2 | Oh, wow. |
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