Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Dorcus]

Llandudno this morning.

You wouldn't think so many kids would be acting the goat at a time like this, would you? The silly Billys.

[surge]

-We'll increase tests to 10k a day
Govt - Mar11

-We'll increase tests to 25k a day
Boris Johnson Mar19

-We've reached 10k tests a day
Michael Gove Mar29

'Actual number around 7k'
-Helen Whately Mar30

'We'll rapidly expand testing'
-Dominic Raab Mar30

'We'll do 25k tests a day - by end April
-Govt Mar31

It's shortage chemicals
-Gove Mar31

(Paul Johnson: https://twitter.com/paul__johnson)

See what has happened here ? Hugh pym asks a simple question of why not enough testing for nhs staff and he gets a long winded reply from Health chief about why testing is important. Which ends with the words “ramp up” . Hugh knows all this. We all know all this

(Emily Matlis: https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/1245024097257558016)

@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 has contacted its members, and they've said there is no shortage of the relevant reagents. So the Association has now been in touch with @michaelgove's office to find out what he means, because it is stumped.

(Robert Preston: https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1245046542974750720)

The UK government also said not in EU scheme to purchase ventilators because email wasn't seen despite being in four meetings where scheme was discussed. It's not about left or right, it's a government that has repeatedly misinformed public, avoided scrutiny, or challenged legitimacy of press asking questions and now is doing so with people's lives at risk.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

You wouldn't think so many kids would be acting the goat at a time like this, would you? The silly Billys.

Typical of the nanny state.

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Deborah Birx, White House Covid task force just openly pitied UK ventilator capacity: “We’re worried about groups all around the globe...they have 8000 ventilators in the UK. If you translate that to the US that would be equivalent to us having 40000 ventilators. We have 5x that”

To recap, special relationship in an...unusual place: Trump spent five minutes lamenting what he said was Britain’s herd immunity strategy and one of his principal scientific advisers openly lamented our lack of ventilators.

Lewis Goodall: https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/st...22087452397568