Dame Sally Davies has been accused of trying to worm her way out of blame for Public Health England’s shambolic role in Covid-19 pandemic Dame Sally Davies was today accused of trying to worm her way out of blame for Public Health England’s shambolic role in Covid-19 pandemic. England’s former chief medical officer launched a … Read more
Airport testing could identify up to six in ten coronavirus cases, experts claim. Public Health England has said testing travellers on arrival would only detect seven per cent of people carrying the virus. It has been used time and time again by ministers to justify a lack of screening at airports, given the UK is … Read more
Public Health England’s Excel bungle has drastically changed the outlook of England’s coronavirus outbreak, with infection rates in the North soaring overnight. Following the revelation that almost 16,000 ‘missed’ cases had been added to the system, infection rates spiralled in every authority of the country except four at the weekend — all of which were … Read more
PHE’s Covid-19 dashboard is hit by ‘technical difficulties’ – meaning patients can’t see how many cases or deaths occurred Public Health England was forced to tweet out the updated Covid-19 figures The glitch on the dashboard meant the data ‘takes longer than usual to load’ Sources say issue is with the hosting platform and is … Read more
Public Health England only had enough contact-tracing capacity to last two weeks before it became ‘exhausted’, scientists warned in February. A batch of scientific papers submitted to the Government’s SAGE committee were published today and reveal more of what officials were being told in the early stages of the UK’s epidemic. Researchers said there was … Read more