Than 20 lives with dozens of people still missing more than 15 inches of rain has fallen. Queuing to reach snowdon s Summit Walkers are urged to respect The Mountain as the number of visitors soars. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. Britain and america have hours not weeks to evacuate people from afghanistan, according to the Defence Secretary. Pressures growing on us president Joe Biden to delay the withdrawal of american troops beyond his August 31 deadline. We will have continuing coverage now on the crisis in afghanistan. Welcome to a country turned upside down by this sudden and surprising turn of events, just one week ago here in kabul the taliban took over and one week on, they are still trying to consolidate their control across the city. Afghans across the country are still coming to terms with the country turned upside down and their lives turned inside out. We spent the last 2a hours at the international airport in kabul where some of these scenes are very surreal, the
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If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next member and you will retain the balance of your time. A clock on the screen will show the balance of the time remaining. I will use the gavel to remind members that their time is almost expired. The clock will turn red and i will begin with the next member. We will begin with the chair and Ranking Member. Members will be recognized by seniority. Finally, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email to which members can send anything they wish. That Email Address has been provided in advance to your staff. With that, i want to acknowledge ranking Member Cole and all of our colleagues, and i want to thank our witnesses for testifying. Good morning to dr. Collins. Welcome back. I would also like to welcome the five institute directors joining dr. Collins today. Dr. Diana bianchi, director of the national institute of Child Health and human development. Dr. Anthony fauci, director of the national institute of alle
Testing right because essentially, thats our first line of defence with covid. Testing is a cornerstone of the governments fight against coronavirus. The most reliable tests are called pcr. Thousands of samples every day are sent here to one of the uks biggest labs, Milton Keynes. Panorama has been told by sources about poor practices at the lab. Its january, and im going undercover to investigate. Hi, hows it going . Oh, thank you. Im a science graduate with lab experience. Ive had 4. 5 days training and im being paid £13. 57 an hour as a lab technician. Right, well, good luck were disguising the identities of all the people im working with. Morning yeah, good. How are you . I start working in whats called the de bagging area. As soon as i start unpacking samples, i notice a number of the tubes they come in leak. The lab has to deal with at least eight different types of tubes. Were supposed to check for leaky ones when we open the bags. We do our best to clean up the leaks to try to
Now on bbc news, Panorama Goes Undercover Inside A Lab Analysing Covid 19 tests, revealing a failing service with staff under pressure, Equipment Malfunctioning and tests wrongly discarded. My name is jacqui wakefield. Im secretly filming inside one of the largest laboratories testing for coronavirus in the uk. Its made me really angry and theres been times on shift where ive really had to bite my tongue. My evidence reveals how some people could be getting the wrong result. Gasps what youre seeing here is just absolutely crazy. There is almost zero question that this would lead to contamination. The government has spent over £1 billion setting up a network of testing labs, including this one in Milton Keynes. Hi, folks, im here at the Milton Keynes mega lab where theyre doing the most phenomenal amount of testing. But i find frustrated staff losing faith in the system. What do the xs mean . Every tube is a person you have to think that way. And probably quite a scared person or a wor