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HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe are absolutely guided by the science. It is a very important principle of our overall response, and hence we upgraded the PPE guidelines a few weeks ago to include the use of…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I am happy to look into all different ways of having safe working practices within the NHS and more broadly. Within the NHS, infection control is a critical piece of work. My…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe exact scheduling of any announcement is, of course, a matter that has to be considered across Government, but I will take away my hon. Friend’s concerns and ensure that they…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have flattened the curve of this epidemic, ensured that the NHS is not overwhelmed and expanded testing capacity to over 100,000 tests a day. As a Government, we are working…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Test, Track and TraceNo, I do not. I welcome the hon. Lady to her post as part of the shadow Health team, and I think she might do well to take a leaf out of the shadow Secretary of State’s book on…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccine DevelopmentWe do work globally, and we do work together. As the Prime Minister made clear yesterday, we have committed £744 million to the global response to coronavirus. We are significant…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccine DevelopmentThe development of a coronavirus vaccine is in its early stages but progressing rapidly. The Government have backed two promising vaccine candidates from the University of Oxford…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Tests for Key WorkersYes. The shadow Secretary of State has asked questions in a responsible and reasonable way, and I welcome his support for the test, track and trace pilot on the Isle of Wight that…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: HospicesThere are lots of things that we will need to learn when this crisis is over. The hospice system has always had a mixed model of funding—a very strong history of philanthropic…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: HospicesWe are providing up to £200 million to hospices over the next three months to support their work alongside the NHS as part of the national response—by, for instance, providing…05 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Tests for Key WorkersWe expanded testing to all symptomatic essential workers and members of their households last month. As capacity continues to increase, we have been able to go further still, with…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes.05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThere is strong evidence that the under-10s are less likely to have symptoms of coronavirus, but unfortunately the evidence on the under-10s’ transmission of coronavirus is mixed…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateWe have looked into this very important question. Of course, test, track and trace is a system. The app is one part of it, but the human contact traces are an important part of…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I am incredibly proud of the work that was done to put in place the Nightingale hospitals across the country. Most of them were put in place in under two weeks. The London…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes.05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateThe hon. Lady is right that making sure that our whole social care system gets access to PPE is important. There is often a focus on PPE in hospitals and care homes, but on home…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. I would like to take this opportunity to set out the exact policy, which a few media outlets have got wrong in the past few days.…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI agree with the hon. Lady on the first part of her question, but she is completely wrong on the second part. In the first part, she asked whether local public health officers and…05 May 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateYes, I do, because the more people are spaced out on public transport in terms of the distance between them, the safer that public transport will be. I hope that the Mayor of…05 May 2020