Lack of capacity drove ‘pivotal’ decision to end community testing, MPs say
The Commons Science and Technology Committee said Public Health England has failed to answer questions over the change in tactic.
The Commons Science and Technology Committee said Public Health England has failed to answer questions over the change in tactic.
Ministers are said to have known about the findings for a month before providing more money to prevent fatalities in the sector.
Previously only essential workers, the over-65s and individuals who live with them could apply for coronavirus testing.
A nurse who lost her sense of taste and smell says she believes she caught Covid-19 at the end of March just as the country was going in to lockdown.
Writing in the BMJ, experts say the “UK’s response so far has neither been well prepared nor remotely adequate”.
An "approximate" date for a Covid-19 vaccine was among the topics covered in Monday’s papers.
As our reliance on key workers intensifies, this is what UK MPs will be debating in parliament today.
Arvinder Sarai, 26, discusses day-to-day life as a pharmacist at St Mary’s Hospital in London and how her life has changed working on the front line.
It comes after the Daily Mail provoked outrage for its front page coverage yesterday.
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