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A testing target: why does the 100k target matter?

Posted by: dhscpressoffice, Posted on: 30 April 2020 - Categories: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

By UK National Testing Strategy Coordinator Professor John Newton As the Evening Standard commented yesterday “when the Health Secretary promised that 100,000 people a day would be tested for coronavirus by the end of this month, it looked an impossible goal.” I …

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Response to media reports on NHS Nightingale

Posted by: DHSC Media Team, Posted on: 22 April 2020 - Categories: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Several media reports running today about NHS Nightingale are misleading. There is no shortage of nurses and all coronavirus patients who need treatment are being treated in existing London hospitals. NHS Nightingale has been set up to treat patients if …

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Response to Sunday Times Insight article

Posted by: dhscpressoffice, Posted on: 19 April 2020 - Categories: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

A Government spokesman said: ‘This article contains a series of falsehoods and errors and actively misrepresents the enormous amount of work which was going on in government at the earliest stages of the Coronavirus outbreak.’ ‘This is an unprecedented global …

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