Science

Young, healthy volunteers in the UK could be deliberately exposed to the Coronavirus under highly controlled conditions to speed up the development of a vaccine.

Labour MP Debbie Abrahams joined us from her Oldham constituency to talk about new rules that will be imposed on Greater Manchester.

Boris Johnson announces that the whole of Greater Manchester would be put under Tier 3 restrictions from the end of this week.

We speak to Prof Christina Pagel and Prof Steve Reicher.

We spoke to the First Minister Mark Drakeford.

From 6pm on Friday, the whole of Wales will go back into lockdown.

With Covid-19 cases thought to be doubling every seven days and the possibility of stricter regulations nationwide, joining us are three experts from science, economics and business to discuss what might happen in the next few weeks.

The latest daily UK figures show that there have been 4,368 new Covid cases, and the latest 24-hour death figure is 11.

We were joined at the Frampton Marsh reserve by Beccy Speight, who’s chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and by the environmental economist Dr Matthew Agarwala

Earlier we spoke to Tony Juniper, who is the chair of Natural England, which is the official body that works for the conservation and restoration of the natural environment in England.

Environmental catastrophe is not just someone else’s problem, it is happening right here in Britain too.

We spoke to Dr Ben Santer, a climate scientist based in California’s bay area.

In California, Oregon and Washington – dozens of large and aggressive fires have forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and destroyed entire towns.

Extinction Rebellion protesters have descended on Parliament Square in central London to kick off 10 days of civil disobedience, demanding government action on the climate crisis.

We were joined by Prof Sir John Bell, who’s the Regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, and is part of the team developing a coronavirus vaccine.