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Coronavirus antibody tests may finally be on the way to Britain as one manufacturer of the kits has restricted sales to just UK healthcare providers. Belfast-based Biopanda Reagents posted an alert on its website to say the ban on all international orders was ‘effective immediately’. Its kits, which work on just a finger-prick of blood, … Read more
Ministers were accused of ‘complacency’ and snubbing offers of help from labs today as Boris Johnson struggles to get a grip on the UK’s coronavirus testing shambles. The government is desperately trying to ramp up the number of checks carried out, with warnings that 85 per cent of self-isolating NHS staff might be off unnecessarily … Read more
Ministers were accused of ‘complacence’ and snubbing offers of help from labs today as Boris Johnson struggles to get a grip on the UK’s coronavirus testing shambles. The government is desperately trying to ramp up the number of checks carried out, with experts warning that is the only way to end the lockdown threatening to … Read more
Piers Morgan blasts ‘tone deaf’ Matt Hancock and Michael Gove for ‘back-slapping’ each other on Twitter over new ventilators that ‘haven’t arrived’ on day UK suffered worst coronavirus deaths of 381 Health Secretary applauded arrival of ventilators for the NHS on Twitter Colleague Michael Gove congratulated him for his ‘great leadership’ amid crisis Piers Morgan … Read more
The heartbroken family of the first NHS worker to die from coronavirus have said that it he was ‘properly protected’ he might still be alive today amid a wave of criticism directed at the Government’s handling of Covid-19 tests. Dr Adil El Tayar, a working surgeon, died on Wednesday at West Middlesex University Hospital in … Read more
The UK gave up on containing the coronavirus outbreak ‘too soon’ because scientists assumed most people would become infected anyway, a leading expert has claimed. Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the Edinburgh University, said the assumption led officials to abandon measures that could help slow the pandemic. Those measures include mass testing and stringent contact … Read more
Ministers are being told to get a grip on coronavirus testing as the health secretary closes a loophole that left thousands of its unused and a vast NHS swabbing station stood deserted. Matt Hancock tonight intervened to end the embarrassing situation in which the number of tests carried out is short of capacity. A source … Read more
Boris Johnson’s virtual Cabinet: PM chairs the first EVER top UK political meeting where NO ministers are in the same room as each other as he continues to self-isolate in Downing Street due to coronavirus Meeting of the UK’s top ministers was expected to be held entirely via videolink PM and Health Secretary Matt Hancock … Read more
Fury as UK is STILL not carrying out 10,000 coronavirus tests a day despite ministers claiming the level had been hit yesterday Ministers claimed yesterday 10,000 coronavirus tests were being done per day They admitted today that level had not been reached despite ‘capacity’ in place Backlash has been growing about the slow pace towards … Read more
An astonishing 750,000 Britons have joined the NHS volunteer army in just five days. Health Secretary Matt Hancock had initially hoped to recruit 250,000 members of the public – but the target was trebled following the huge response. Nearly half a million pledged their support in the first 24 hours after the appeal went out on … Read more