Transparency row over body driving UK’s Covid lockdowns

Oct 11, 2020

Earlier this year, the Government was forced to publish the full membership of the Sage scientific committee and regular details of its advice to ministers after a row over transparency. The chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, later agreed it had been “an...

How Covid cases have fallen far short of the Government’s ‘doomsday graph’

Oct 11, 2020

The Government said that, as of 9am on Sunday, there had been a further 12,872 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, although the figure is likely to be skewed downwards by a weekend lag in reporting. According to the worst-case scenario, there would have...

NHS will need more than 1,000 new consultants, physios and counsellors to treat long Covid patients

Oct 11, 2020

Long Covid services are “patchy and overstretched” and the NHS will need to hire more than 1,000 new consultants, physios and counsellors to treat patients, Oxford University professors have warned. Around 60,000 people are estimated to be suffering lingering symptoms...

Millions will be ordered not to leave their local areas in new Covid clampdown

Oct 11, 2020

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, who has been in regular contact with Mr Hancock, is understood to believe that additional restrictions in the capital are now highly likely. In practice, that would mean London being put into the “high” tier. Large parts of...