Boost for Boris’s testing ‘moonshot’ as government secures 20 million ‘game-changing’ 15-minute swab kits and starts rolling them out to hospital staff Government secured 20million antigen tests validated by Public Health England The ‘game changing’ swab kit said to provide 100% specificity in 15 minutes Tests to be used regularly on hospital staff to help … Read more
Boost for Boris’s testing ‘moonshot’ as government secures 20 million ‘game-changing’ 15-minute swab kits and starts rolling them out to hospital staff Government secured 20million antigen tests validated by Public Health England The ‘game changing’ swab kit said to provide 100% specificity in 15 minutes Tests to be used regularly on hospital staff to help … Read more
Low earners denied free pension cash given to better paid colleagues should be compensated with a bonus into their pots from the taxman, say experts. Critics have long demanded action over a tax flaw which means an estimated 1.5million poorly paid staff lose Government payments into their pensions, depending on the type of scheme operated … Read more
Burnham’s enjoying a ‘soapbox moment’: Manchester Mayor accused of attention seeking as Treasury warns Boris not to write blank cheque Chancellor Rishi Sunak was warned the PM about caving in to Andy Burnham The Manchester mayor wishes to secure additional funding for his region Downing Street sources are worried about what may happen in this … Read more
Burnham’s enjoying a ‘soapbox moment’: Manchester Mayor accused of attention seeking as Treasury warns Boris not to write blank cheque Chancellor Rishi Sunak was warned the PM about caving in to Andy Burnham The Manchester mayor wishes to secure additional funding for his region Downing Street sources are worried about what may happen in this … Read more
A senior Government adviser today warned the UK needs a short national ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown as he called other coronavirus restriction ‘biting around the edges’. Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford, warned there is an ‘eye-watering’ number of coronavirus cases which needs to be managed. He suggested that only a … Read more
Senior Government advisor Sir John Bell says UK needs nationwide circuit breaker lockdown to get on top of ‘eye watering’ Covid numbers By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 10:35 BST, 17 October 2020 | Updated: 10:44 BST, 17 October 2020 A senior Government adviser today said the UK needs a short national ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown as … Read more
Now they want a SERIES of circuit breakers: Government adviser says we should shut down the country around EVERY school holiday Coronavirus ‘circuit breakers’ should be pencilled in around the school holidays A senior government adviser argued for a ‘whole series’ when schools break up The idea is aimed at causing minimum disruption to schoolchildren’s … Read more
Many governments around the world have introduced new digital surveillance and data collection tools to combat the coronavirus, but a new report says the technologies are an abuse of power. Freedom House, a human rights watchdog group, released an internet freedom report that shows a decline in free speech and privacy online across 80 countries … Read more
Thailand’s government has implemented an emergency decree to quell anti-government protests in Bangkok, which includes a ban on gatherings of five or more people. In a televised announcement read out by police, a statement said ‘many groups of people have invited, incited and carried out unlawful public gatherings in Bangkok’, adding that urgent measures were … Read more