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Britain faces decades of financial risk as £370bn pandemic bill mounts

Britain faces ‘decades of financial risk’ as £370bn pandemic bill mounts Toby Helm © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Levene/the Guardian Taxpayers will be left facing “significant financial risk for decades to come” because of the levels of emergency government spending on the pandemic, totalling more than £370bn, a powerful committee of MPs says today. In two separate reports, the all-party public accounts committee (PAC) paints a daunting picture of the lasting financial strain caused by the first 16 months of combating Covid-19, and says the government must not wait until after the official inquiry to learn the lessons of what went wrong.

A cartel shouldn t get away with this Anger at opioid settlements that exclude admission of wrongdoing

‘A cartel shouldn’t get away with this.’ Anger at opioid settlements that exclude admission of wrongdoing Chris McGreal in New York © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP There is growing anger among families bereaved by the US opioid epidemic at pharmaceutical companies “buying their way out of accountability” with multibillion-dollar settlements that specifically exclude any admission of wrongdoing. The opioid maker Johnson & Johnson and the country’s three largest drug distributors on Wednesday agreed to pay $26bn to settle a raft of lawsuits accusing them of acting recklessly and illegally in pushing prescription opioid sales when they knew the painkillers were driving an epidemic of addiction and overdoses.

Jeremy Farrar: A September 2020 lockdown would have saved a lot of lives

Jeremy Farrar: ‘A September 2020 lockdown would have saved a lot of lives’ Andrew Anthony © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Horst Friedrichs/Alamy Jeremy Farrar is the director of the Wellcome Trust, a former professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). He has just published his account of the Covid crisis – Spike: The Virus v the People - in which he attacks the government for delaying a lockdown last autumn and describes the scientific and medical efforts that went into combating the pandemic. At the beginning of the book, you say you initially believed that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab. Do you now reject that theory? And is there anything China could do to end that line of speculation?You cannot absolutely, categorically, determine where the virus came from. But I do think that the balance of scientific evidence points strongly in favour of

Europe clamps down amid fears over rapid spread of Delta variant

Europe clamps down amid fears over rapid spread of Delta variant Emma Graham-Harrison © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA With the school term finally over, Britons are flying to Europe in their tens of thousands, record levels for this Covid year. They are arriving in countries where the Delta variant paralysing Britain is just becoming dominant – and Europe is responding by clamping down. Some countries have tightened border controls, with Malta barring entry to unvaccinated travellers and Germany bringing in stricter quarantine rules for people arriving from Spain and the Netherlands. More broadly, authorities from Greece to Italy and France to Portugal are bringing in what are effectively vaccine passports for a wide range of activities, although most are shying away from using that term, which has become incendiary.

Cuban leftists begin to turn their fire on the harmful practices of the state

Cuban leftists begin to turn their fire on the harmful practices of the state
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