News updates: health secretary says ‘quarantine policy has absolutely proved its worth’
- UK may reimpose quarantine on travellers from Portugal
- Mass weekly testing of population to be trialled in England
- Childcare crisis risks pushing women out of workforce, says TUC
- Global coronavirus updates – live
8.16am BST
Now Hancock’s on the Today programme, once again being asked to explain why people are having to travel so far for testing in some cases. He says: “Of course there are some operational challenges in a system as big as that”. And he says resources are being focussed on areas with new outbreaks.
Is this a problem or a policy, Nick Robinson asks him? He describes them again as “operational challenges” but says the rollout of mass testing is “an answer to the problem in the medium term.”
8.07am BST
On the Today programme, professor Alan McNally, from the University of Birmingham, says scaling up of testing should have been done over the summer.
When asked whether now is the right time to change the way tests are carried out, he says: “I don’t think the time is right, I think the time was right to think about scaling up testing to the wider community and asymptomatic testing over the summer when we were relatively Covid-secure, knowing that autumn and winter would come.”
Continue reading…News updates: health secretary says ‘quarantine policy has absolutely proved its worth’UK may reimpose quarantine on travellers from PortugalMass weekly testing of population to be trialled in EnglandChildcare crisis risks pushing women out of workforce, says TUCGlobal coronavirus updates – live 8.16am BSTNow Hancock’s on the Today programme, once again being asked to explain why people are having to travel so far for testing in some cases. He says: “Of course there are some operational challenges in a system as big as that”. And he says resources are being focussed on areas with new outbreaks. Is this a problem or a policy, Nick Robinson asks him? He describes them again as “operational challenges” but says the rollout of mass testing is “an answer to the problem in the medium term.” 8.07am BSTOn the Today programme, professor Alan McNally, from the University of Birmingham, says scaling up of testing should have been done over the summer.When asked whether now is the right time to change the way tests are carried out, he says: “I don’t think the time is right, I think the time was right to think about scaling up testing to the wider community and asymptomatic testing over the summer when we were relatively Covid-secure, knowing that autumn and winter would come.” Continue reading…