Lockdown: What will be lifted first? And what’s happening in America with coronavirus?
Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast
ITV News
4.2 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It's been a busy week in the UK with the prime minister returning to work and announcing Britain has passed the peak of coronavirus.
With that, a lifting of some lockdown restrictions should be expected in the coming weeks. Robert Peston reveals which restrictions may be lifted first, and why.
Across the pond in America is the world's worst coronavirus death toll - we speak to Washington Correspondent Robert Moore to find out exactly what the situation is in the US, and how President Donald Trump is handling it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. Boris Johnson is back at work, had a baby, announced Britain is past the peak of COVID-19 infections, and confirmed that next week his government will release a roadmap of the restrictions it hopes to lift in the coming months. |
| 0:17.3 | The health secretary has hit his target of 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the skin |
| 0:22.9 | of his teeth. More than 120,000 were conducted on the final day of April. The date Matt Hancock |
| 0:29.2 | set himself at the start of the month. His next target will be to come up with a sophisticated |
| 0:34.7 | model of tracking and tracing the virus on a mass scale. |
| 0:38.9 | So, all in all, a pretty quiet week covering politics for the ITV news team. |
| 0:43.5 | Welcome to Calling Peston. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Daniel Hewitt with me as ever, not in person, but in sound and spirit. |
| 0:49.2 | My colleague, Shihab Khan. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello. |
| 0:51.6 | And between us, we'll be living up to the name of this podcast and calling Peston |
| 0:54.8 | for Robert's take on another busy and significant few days in this fast-moving story. |
| 1:00.8 | Plenty for us to talk about today. Also on today's podcast, we'll be speaking to ITV, |
| 1:05.8 | Washington correspondent Robert Moore on how the United States is dealing or not dealing |
| 1:10.4 | with this global pandemic. |
| 1:13.1 | Before we get on to that, welcome, Sheehab. Welcome, Lewis. How are you both doing? |
| 1:18.1 | Hello. |
| 1:18.5 | Not too bad. I'm fine. You're right, Lewis. |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I'm getting a bit sick of spending my life in my bedroom. But other than |
| 1:26.7 | that, I'm good. |
| 1:30.6 | I have a confession to make before we get going. |
| 1:36.2 | I have been cheating on both of you with another podcast. |
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