LONDON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Britain's failure to do more to stop the spread of coronavirus early in the pandemic was one of the country's worst public health failures, said an official report released Tuesday. The government approach was to try to manage the situation and in effect achie...
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 ...
12 (Xinhua) -- Britain's failure to do more to stop the spread of coronavirus early in the pandemic was one of the country's worst public health failures, said an official report released Tuesday. The government approach was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd ...
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 ...
sets out the main finance facilities available to UK corporate borrowers who are facing liquidity tightening as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. These facilities are in addition to other available relief under existing central bank regimes, and those that have been provided by the government. ...
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 ...
Since the decision to delay the full removal of restrictions, COVID-19 cases have continued to rise rapidly, but government ministers have said the rise in cases is not something that will change their plans – they have said the full healthcare figures suggest vaccination ...
LONDON (AP) — A mammoth three-year public inquiry into the U.K. government's handling of the response to COVID-19 opened Tuesday by asking if some suffering and death could have been avoided with better planning — and whether Britain's complex, protrac
"The government was not fully prepared for the wide-ranging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on society, the economy and essential public services. It lacked detailed plans on shielding, employment support schemes and managing the disruption to schooling," said the report. ...
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 ...