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Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock gave the 21 April 2020 daily press briefing on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock gave the 12 April 2020 daily press briefing on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock gave the 10 April 2020 daily press briefing on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock gave the 2 April 2020 daily press briefing on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
100,000 people will be sent self-testing kits to determine if they are currently infected.
A new method of reporting daily COVID-19 deaths has been developed by Public Health England (PHE).
This will accelerate the development of new drugs for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, reducing the time taken to set up clinical studies for new therapies from months to weeks.
The families of health and care workers on the frontline in England will benefit from a new life assurance scheme during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The storage time will be extended by 2 years so that those undergoing fertility treatment during the coronavirus outbreak have more time to continue treatment.
Mobile testing units, operated by the Armed Forces, will travel around the UK to increase access to coronavirus testing.
If effective, a national programme will deliver up to 10,000 units of plasma a week to the NHS to help treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients.
Announcing measures to ensure transport boosts the national response to COVID-19 and paying tribute to the transport workers who have kept vital freight and passenger services running.
New parents, unpaid carers, the homeless, young people and cancer patients could benefit from digital solutions as part of the TechForce19 challenge.
Action will protect the transport links the country relies on.
Government funds will maintain vital transport links to the mainland.
Funding to safeguard ferry routes between Great Britain and Northern Ireland during COVID-19 outbreak.
20,000 households in England are being contacted to take part in the first wave of a major new government study to track coronavirus (COVID-19) in the general population.
Sites in Milton Keynes, Glasgow and Alderley Park in Cheshire are now live and are already testing thousands of patient samples for coronavirus (COVID-19) each day.
PHE's response to a column in the Sun newspaper on 20 April 2020.
The second mega-lab at Alderley Park in Cheshire has begun to test thousands of patient samples a day for coronavirus.
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