Rishi Sunak will launch £100million taskforce to catch the Covid fraudsters who grabbed cash meant for hard-hit firms The Chancellor will outline the anti-fraud measures during next week’s budget He will create the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce with 1,265 staff at HMRC They will track down criminal gangs responsible for millions in fraudulent claims Rogue employers … Read more
Rishi Sunak will launch £100million taskforce to catch the Covid fraudsters who grabbed cash meant for hard-hit firms The Chancellor will outline the anti-fraud measures during next week’s budget He will create the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce with 1,265 staff at HMRC They will track down criminal gangs responsible for millions in fraudulent claims Rogue employers … Read more
New Covid vaccines could be made in just 40 days if they were needed to tackle mutated versions of the virus, the UK’s taskforce chief has said. Dr Clive Dix, who took over from Kate Bingham as head of the UK’s vaccine squad, said it would take a maximum of 60 days to get new … Read more
Councillor who co-chaired taskforce into BAME covid deaths is under investigation for ‘flouting social distancing guidelines at indoor gathering’ Photos seen online allegedly show cllr Mohammed Yaseen Hussain at gathering The pictures show a number of men sitting close to each other in a private home Sandwell Council has confirmed it is examining a complaint … Read more
A coronavirus jab might not provide full immunity against the disease, the head of Britain’s vaccine task force warned today. Kate Bingham told MPs she was confident the world would have some form of Covid-19 vaccine by early 2021. But she said she was less optimistic that the jab could protect against catching the infection and … Read more
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the American people have to be ‘warriors’ as he tried to justify his push to reopen the economy and gain popular support for it in the teeth of polls suggesting most think it is too soon. Asked if Americans will have to accept the idea that by reopening there will … Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended the decision to disband his coronavirus task force despite 70,000 Americans dying and infections rates still headed upward. ‘We can’t keep our country closed for the next five years. You could say there might be a recurrence and there might be,’ Trump said, when pressed about his decision to … Read more
Members of the White House coronavirus task force that has drawn worldwide attention amid the outbreak are being told it is ‘winding down’ even as the number of U.S. deaths and infections are projected to rise. The task force, which was put under the domain of Vice President Mike Pence only to have President Donald Trump take … Read more
A coronavirus vaccine will take ‘many months’ and there are ‘no guarantees’ one will be found to protect millions from the killer virus, ministers warned tonight. British volunteers could be given the first dose of a potential coronavirus vaccine within the next week, leading researchers say. Oxford University scientists are already manufacturing a million doses of … Read more
Donald Trump signals support for creating a SECOND coronavirus taskforce to look into the reopening of the economy President Trump tweeted that it was a ‘good idea!’ to form a second coronavirus taskforce to come up with a plan to reopen the economy The president was responding to a Friday tweet from Dana Perino, the … Read more