Matt Hancock today unveiled a new pandemic-fighting body that will replace Public Health England and protect the UK in the face of future disease outbreaks. The Health Secretary said the UK Health Security Agency will begin work next month and its ‘sole job’ will be to ‘plan, prevent and respond to external threats to health’. … Read more
PHE spots FOUR more cases of Brazil Covid variant in South Gloucestershire and Yorkshire and spots ANOTHER mutant strain ‘from Antigua’ in the South East By Connor Boyd Assistant Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 14:44 GMT, 11 March 2021 | Updated: 14:48 GMT, 11 March 2021 Four more cases of the Brazilian coronavirus variant have … Read more
Facemasks with at least two or three layers are effective at reducing the spread of Covid, a top UK health official has said. Public Health England’s Dr Susan Hopkins last night told the Downing Street press conference the ‘more layers you have the better’. The comment came in response to a question about the effectiveness … Read more
London has the highest coronavirus infection rate in England, PHE data shows as cases fall in Tier Three areas but rise in Tier Two as local lockdown shake-up looms London could be upgraded to Tier 3 when system is reviewed on December 16 By Connor Boyd Assistant Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 15:18 GMT, 10 … Read more
PHE was reassuring politicians the UK was ‘on the same trajectory as Germany’ and would NOT see spikes like in France and Spain at the same time SAGE was urging a ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown to stop ‘exponential’ growth EXC: PHE official briefed peers on Sept 15 that UK ‘on same path as Germany’ They insisted … Read more
Treasury savages ‘appalling and incredibly expensive’ plans for a £350m Essex HQ to house new body replacing Public Health England The National Institute for Health Protection has replaced Public Health England Matt Hancock has tabled plans to relocate the NIHP’s headquarters to Essex Treasury insiders have criticised the plans, calling them ‘appalling and incredibly expensive’ … Read more
Government AXE PHE and replace it with new institute run by former jockey Baroness Dido Harding who oversaw disastrous Test and Trace scheme and TalkTalk when hackers stole 157,000 customers’ data Baroness Dido Harding, 52, headed NHS England’s Test and Trace scheme She is a former horse jockey and was chief executive of TalkTalk during … Read more
Outbreaks of Covid-like illnesses in care homes are at their highest levels in a month, data from Public Health England show. In the week from July 13 to 19 there were 145 outbreaks of ‘acute respiratory infections’ in homes around the country, up from 128 the week before. An outbreak constitutes one or more people … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into the way Public Health England counts coronavirus deaths. PHE is ‘over-exaggerating’ the daily coronavirus death toll because it counts people as victims if they die of any cause at any time after testing positive for Covid-19, top academics revealed last night. People are never truly … Read more
Leicester-style localised lockdowns are ‘just days away’ from being imposed after dozens of towns and cities saw cases surge in the past week, public health officials revealed today. Bradford and Doncaster are said to be at the top of the Government’s list of 36 regions earmarked as potential Covid hotspots. Parts of Kent and at … Read more