Matt hancock
Oct 27, 2020 00:09
British health secretary Matt Hancock said a vaccine was not yet ready but he was preparing logistics for a possible roll-out mostly in the first half of 2021 read more
Oct 15, 2020 17:37
Health secretary Matt Hancock announced new curbs in Essex, York and other areas, which brings half of England’s population under local lockdowns. read more
Oct 15, 2020 13:11
Britain’s increasingly fractured coronavirus picture comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson resists calls for a “circuit-breaker” national lockdown and continues to pursue a localized approach. read more
Sep 24, 2020 12:45
The numbers, Hancock said, were less than during the pandemic’s peak. On Wednesday, Britain reported 6,178 new cases of Covid-19. read more
Sep 21, 2020 18:12
Senior health official projects 50,000 cases per day in mid-October and more than 200 daily deaths by mid-November. read more
Sep 21, 2020 16:55
Ministers are trying to decide how to balance tackling the virus with helping the economy recover from its worst recession in more than a century, sparking divisions within the Cabinet over the best way forward. read more
Sep 21, 2020 16:34
The United Kingdom already has the biggest official Covid-19 death toll in Europe - and the fifth largest in the world - while it is borrowing record amounts in an attempt to pump emergency money through the damaged economy. read more
Sep 21, 2020 02:42
The fines for those breaching self-isolation rules will start at £1,000 (nearly $1,300), but could increase to up to £10,000 for repeat offences and for the most egregious breaches, including for those preventing others from self-isolating. read more
Sep 20, 2020 18:09
Labour leader Keir Starmer, who is beginning the party’s annual conference virtually, said he would support another national lockdown. read more
Sep 03, 2020 06:13
Health minister Matt Hancock has said he hopes mass testing using faster Covid-19 tests can be rolled out towards the end of the year, adding that they are key to restoring freedoms after months of Covid-19 restrictions. read more
Aug 19, 2020 12:31
“The reason is that the evidence from NHS Test and Trace for where people catch the disease is that, very largely, they catch it from one household meeting another household, usually in one of their homes,”health secretary Matt Hancock said. read more
Jul 31, 2020 15:58
Matt Hancock said that while it’s not the “sort of decision that anybody would want to take,’’ the government had no choice. read more
Jul 28, 2020 16:02
Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi are among major languages the UK government translates official communication, but translation services have not been able to keep up with frequent virus-related updates. Some key advice is only available in English. read more
Jun 21, 2020 15:02
“We’re about to see another step in the plan,” Hancock told BBC TV. “This week we will announce further details of the measures we can take to relieve some of the national lockdown measures at the start of July, including on July 4.” read more
