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of countermeasures. why did you not say those things? say those things? that is not howl would characterise say those things? that is not howl would characterise the say those things? that is not howl would characterise the situation. i would characterise the situation. the first thing is that i am not confident that by this cabinet meeting, i will have known that sage had concluded that containment was lost. and in fact, i don t think that i was told that for a number of days after. as i said, i m not exactly sure when i was told that. but this meeting was the morning after the minutes of sage coming to that conclusion. secondly, at this point in the department and nphet and the health service, we were working extremely hard to prepare for the pandemic. i had commissioned the action plan and work was under way on that and phe. we were attempting and pushing phe to build the testing system and all of the other things we were directly responsible for. as i say, w ....
Trending A Whitehall source warned they believe social distancing in particular “will need to be in place for a long time to come”. They said: “It has repercussions for the scale of any reopening. Restaurants, pubs and offices will all need to be Covid-secure.” Ministers believe if rules on face masks and social distancing are kept in place, then other measures can be lifted. A Government source added to The Times: “The more restrictions we have in place like social distancing rules the more we can do in terms of easing.” Coronavirus news: Face mask and distancing rules could be extended to autumn at the earliest (Image: GETTY) ....
| UPDATED: 09:43, Sat, Jan 23, 2021 Link copied Patrick Vallance shuts down Hancock s coronavirus variant claim Sign up to receive our rundown of the day s top stories direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE Invalid email When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Professor John Edmunds appeared on Newsnight to discuss the variant of coronavirus that Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned could be more deadly than the original strain. ....
| UPDATED: 08:16, Sat, Jan 9, 2021 Link copied Keir Starmer issues statement over Covid-19 lockdown Sign up to receive our rundown of the day s top stories direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE Invalid email When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Prof Susan Michael, Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) member and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL, told BBC Newsnight that current measures need to be even tougher to curb the spread of the new variant of COVID-19 in the winter. It comes as the UK recorded its highest ever daily death toll and as hospitals warn they are nearly at capacity. ....
| UPDATED: 08:40, Sun, Dec 27, 2020 Link copied Coronavirus variant: Expert outlines details of new strain Sign up to receive our rundown of the day s top stories direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE Invalid email When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Dr Zubaida Haque, part of the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for England (ISAGE), has said the whole of England “must be put into Tier Four immediately” as the mutated strain of COVID-19 spreads across the country. The medical professional took to Twitter to urge the Government to implement the toughest restrictions “now to save lives”, as the UK passes 70,000 total deaths from coronavirus. ....