The UK government tested the response to a coronavirus—why are we only discovering this now?doi:10.1136/bmj.n2485If we don't seem to have learnt much from Exercise Alice, what can we learn from attempts to conceal it? The official inquiry into the UK's handling of the covid-19 ...
Public safety is the government’s top priority in its response to COVID-19 and it is taking firm and comprehensive action, consistent with the best scientific evidence. As well as being focused on safety and the public health response to the outbreak, the government recognises that people ...
Too little, too late, too flawed The UK government and its advisers were confident that they were "well prepared" when covid-19 swept East Asia. The four-pronged plan of 3 March to contain, delay, research, and mitigate was supported by all UK countries and backed, they claimed, by ...
Under the new "battle plan", every government department will have a designated Ministerial virus lead to help oversee government response to the threat of COVID-19. Meanwhile, cross-government "war room" of communications experts and scientists will also be set up ahead of public information bli...
If you have any questions regarding your business’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, please contact one of our team members.COVID-19 – French finance facilities available This table sets out the finance facilities available to French corporate borrowers who are facing liquidity tightening as ...
Meanwhile, the government is also establishing a new COVID-19 alert system run by a joint biosecurity center. The alert level "will tell us how tough we have to be in our social distancing measures -- the lower the level, the fewer the measures," according to Johnson. ...
The UK Government restrictions on non-essential work in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic forced millions of working aged-adults into an unplanned lifestyle change. We present data on changes in commuting behaviour in response to COVID-19 and describe the facilitators ...
His comments came after documents released on Monday showed that the government's own scientific advisors, a group known as Sage, had called for such action three weeks ago. To date, the U.K. has recorded more than 657,000 cases of Covid-19, with 43,245 related deaths, according to da...
Behavioural Insights: The Second Team Leading the UK Government’s Covid-19 Response One World Governance — Part 35 MARTIN EDWARDS At the beginning of this millennium, a range of psychological tools was applied simultaneously on the British public to change the behaviour of smokers,...
Johnson's government ordered an inquiry in 2021 to look into the preparedness of the country as well as the public health and economic response after Britain recorded one of the world's highest total number of deaths from COVID-19.