NHS officials ‘screaming’ at factory chiefs for more tests: Manufacturers are ‘overwhelmed’

Desperate hospital officials have been ‘screaming and shouting’ for coronavirus testing kits, The Mail on Sunday has been told.  Andrew Broggio, the owner of Wiltshire-based Medical Wire and Equipment Co Ltd, said he has been ‘completely overwhelmed’ by demand and that he cannot ‘magic ten million kits out of thin air’.  Like other diagnostics firms … Read more

NHS officials ‘screaming’ at factory chiefs for more tests: Manufacturers are ‘overwhelmed’

Desperate hospital officials have been ‘screaming and shouting’ for coronavirus testing kits, The Mail on Sunday has been told.  Andrew Broggio, the owner of Wiltshire-based Medical Wire and Equipment Co Ltd, said he has been ‘completely overwhelmed’ by demand and that he cannot ‘magic ten million kits out of thin air’.  Like other diagnostics firms … Read more

Britain’s Care home staff say they are at ‘breaking point’ and fear being overwhelmed by coronavirus

By Martin Robinson Feckless businesses are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis in the NHS by ramping up the prices of gloves, masks and aprons by up to 1,000 per cent, it was revealed today. Care homes say they could go to the wall because they are being ‘ripped off’ in order to properly protect … Read more

Police could be ‘overwhelmed’ by drinkers and landlords who flout Boris Johnson’s ban on pubs

Boris Johnson’s ban on pubs could overwhelm the police and the courts if unruly drinkers and landlords decide to flout the new coronavirus rules. The Prime Minister announced tonight: ‘We’re taking away the ancient, inalienable right of free-born people of the United Kingdom to go to the pub, and I can understand how people feel … Read more