Professor Sharon Peacock - head of the Covid-19 Genomics UK scientific body - said the country was well-equipped to “stay ahead” of the virus by quickly adapting vaccines.
“For me, this is, from a moral perspective, the wrong time to be applying pay restraint," MP Dr Dan Poulter said.
NHS Providers is challenging the government over its defence of the recommendation for health workers to receive a one per cent increase, which Labour says is a “real-terms cut” to wages.
“Billions have been spent with those linked to the Conservative Party and vast sums wasted on PPE that isn’t fit for purpose. We have a Government, and a Prime Minister, contemptuous of transparency and apparently allergic to accountability. The very least that the public deserves now is the truth.”
Test and Trace will get another £15 billion in government cash, the small print of Rishi Sunak’s latest Budget has confirmed.
"It seems that it's always the wrong time to give NHS workers a pay rise but never a problem giving your mates a bung."
A £100 million funding package has been announced to help drive down levels of obesity amid signs that it is linked to the UK's high number of Covid deaths.
"Yet another contract, backdated, and given without tender to a firm with close links to the Conservative Party."
There was a 23 point swing in this week's net approval ratings for the Labour leader and Boris Johnson.