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Emails reveal UK gave lucrative COVID contracts to favored firms

Further evidence has emerged about a controversial ‘VIP’ fast-track route, which the British government has used for preferred personal protective equipment (PPE) firms.

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UK issuance of out-of-date PPE for care homes ‘put lives at risk'

The National Care Association says it is ‘appalled’ that due care and attention was not given by the government to the risk of using out-of-date face masks in care homes.

The National Care Association says it is ‘appalled’ that due care and attention was not given to the

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Jacob Rees-Mogg: 'the weather' is to blame for UK’s sky-high coronavirus death toll

Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has come out with another extraordinary explanation for the ever increasing death toll from coronavirus, suggesting that “the weather” is to blame.

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Spanish firefighters build disinfection shower to curb coronavirus

Spanish firefighters have designed a disinfection station they provide free of charge to nursing homes in the area around Valladolid.

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UK coronavirus response utterly hypocritical: UN poverty expert

The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston has attacked the UK government’s coronavirus response as “utterly hypocritical”.

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'Less than 10th' of PPE order arrives in UK

Despite having paid a deposit last Friday in an attempt to secure the delivery of 400,000 protective gowns only 32,000 are believed to have arrived in the first part of the delayed shipment from Turkey.

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