Tag: COVID
No cheering warning to Commons gallery during Covid debate
The deputy Speaker has warned those in the public gallery to stop clapping during a debate on Covid excess deaths.Dame Rosie Winterton said the noise [...]
Moderna halts Kenya vaccine plant plans as Covid shot demand plunges
A nurse prepares a dose of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Oltepesi Dispensary in Kajiado, Kenya, on September 9, 2021.Patrick Meinhardt | AFP | Getty Ima [...]
UK ministers 'afraid' of Sturgeon during Covid
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford also told the UK Covid Inquiry Nicola Sturgeon is a "formidable politician".
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Covid inquiry: Boris Johnson was absent manager in pandemic, Mark Drakeford says
Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty ImagesWales’ education minister during the pandemic offered to resign over her handling of cancelled exams in 2020.In wri [...]
Covid inquiry: Gething admits missing WhatsApps embarrassing
Vaughan Gething, Wales' health minister during Covid, says missing WhatsApps from the period are "embarrassing".He said the messaging app “essentially [...]
Covid inquiry: Vaughan Gething says missing WhatsApps an “embarrassment”
Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty ImagesGething says goggles were one of the PPE items which were used up more quickly than expectedImage caption: Gething [...]
Pfizer is betting big on cancer drugs after Covid decline
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPfizer is ready to move on from Covid. Now, the company is betting on cancer drugs to help it regain its footing aft [...]
Covid inquiry: Astonishing reluctance to call Covid civil emergency – expert
The
inquiry is shown a briefing that PHW prepared on 11 March
making the case for the Welsh government to declare a major incident.It outlined predict [...]
Covid inquiry: ‘No basis’ to stop pubs selling alcohol
From late summer of 2020, the Welsh government used computer modelling by experts from Swansea University to try to predict the severity of future Cov [...]
Gething automatically deleted messages, Covid inquiry hears
Labour leadership candidate used disappearing messages when he was health minister, inquiry told.
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Covid inquiry in Wales: Grieving families hope for accountability
As the manager of two care homes in Wrexham, Gaynor Jones felt her sector was “thrown under a bus by the government” because the advice was unworkable [...]
Novavax to settle Gavi arbitration over canceled Covid shot purchase
A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 2 [...]
Nicola Sturgeon gave phone used during Covid to relative
The evidence, submitted by Ms Sturgeon in November last year, stated she used a personal iPad to access Scottish government email, but this was no lon [...]
Covid Inquiry: Alister Jack deleted WhatsApps to 'free up storage'
The Scottish secretary also claimed Nicola Sturgeon could "cry from one eye" in his evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry.
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Ministers accused of 'hiding mistakes' over Covid
Bereaved relatives and political opponents criticise Nicola Sturgeon's Covid Inquiry testimony.
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