This is both outrageous & also dangerous by @NHSuk
“NHS England... has warned doctors, nurses and other staff will be subject to disciplinary action if they raise with the media health and safety concerns relating to their workplace conditions” https://t.co/kJW9UckWu6
Michael is still poorly but continuing to improve. He has been able to eat today & will be getting a more comfortable oxygen mask soon. All good signs. He does know you've all been rooting for him with this lovely wave of support. Thanks again, Emma x @Underthecranes@J0e_R0sen
.@michaelgove said just now that the difficulty in increasing number of #COVID19 tests was due to a shortage of the relevant "chemcial reagents". Well I've just talked to the Chemical Industries Association, which represents the UK's very substantial chemicals industry. It...
All I hear in these press conferences is "the equipment is on its way" and we are "ramping up" our capacity to cope. We have known about the threat for months.
NHS staff are crying out for help.
Britain is woefully under-prepared for the Coronavirus war that is now exploding.
Not enough tests, not enough PPE, not enough ventilators.
People now dying in large numbers as a consequence & Govt. ministers are being shockingly disingenuous about this shameful incompetence.
So government source says - which is true - that there is a global shortage of the reagent. As it happens @CMO_England said this a couple of weeks ago, as has head of CDC in US. But that still doesn't explain why Chemicals Industry Assoc thinks its members, could help find...
While Dominic Raab waffles trying to explain away why the govt has left so many Brits stranded abroad, Germany flight to repatriate German citizens from Indonesia makes space for 40 Brits.
I miss you EU.