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SLR: Corruption may have a different accent in other countries but the rot smells the same
South Africans are consumed by the country’s fight against corruption and the disgusting rot it uncovers almost daily. Even as we battle Covid-19, certain individuals see fit to plot and steal. This deep infection has been killing the country slowly for decades. Angry citizens seem to think that this sickness is unique to our nation. Simon Lincoln Reader unwraps some of the festering corruption where he lives in the UK and demonstrates how this disease is most certainly a pandemic. Its symptoms are the same in the first world as they are in the third.
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Response to article published by New York Times on UK government procurement
At the height of the crisis in April, health services around the world faced an unprecedented urgent situation where demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical equipment, including testing supplies and ventilators, far exceeded supply, and global production and supply chains were under severe pressure. The government pledged to do whatever it took to protect the people who protect us, deploying hundreds of officials to work night and day, at great speed, to source as much PPE as quickly as possible to protect the NHS and care sector and save lives. We also mobilised huge resources to increase testing capacity and deliver other important medical equipment.
Response to article published by the New York Times on UK government procurement
Response to article published on 17th December.
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23 December 2020
At the height of the crisis in April, health services around the world faced an unprecedented urgent situation where demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical equipment, including testing supplies and ventilators, far exceeded supply, and global production and supply chains were under severe pressure. The government pledged to do whatever it took to protect the people who protect us, deploying hundreds of officials to work night and day, at great speed, to source as much PPE as quickly as possible to protect the NHS and care sector and save lives. We also mobilised huge resources to increase testing capacity and deliver other important medical equipment.