Pat was joined on the show this morning by Hugh Schofield BBC Paris Correspondent,  Graham Keeley, Spain Correspondent for The Independent, and Thomas Sparrow, Deutsche Welle Political and Security to take a look  at the vaccine rollouts, prolonged restrictions and new variants in our Covid-19 round-up across Europe.

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