NHS Test and Trace is paying 2,300 management consultants an AVERAGE of £163,000 EACH - more than Boris Johnson's £150k salary
The government-funded Test and Trace service currently employs 2,300 management consultants who are on an average pay of £163,000 - which exceeds Boris Johnson's salary of around £150,000.
Police issue warning as 'Covid fraudster' goes door-to-door offering fake vaccine jabs for £160 each - saying he is 'endangering lives'
A fraudster claiming to be from the NHS administered a fake Covid vaccine to a 92-year-old victim in Surbiton, London. She was injected with an unknown substance but later showed no ill effects.
Nurse catches Covid three weeks AFTER getting vaccine as expert warns it takes time for immunity to build up
The nurse, who has been working for the Hywel Dda University Health Board area, said that she contracted Covid-19 while waiting for the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine.
In Sunday's papers, there is a renewed focus on lockdown compliance.
In what the Sunday Times describes as an intervention "designed to shock", England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty tells the paper that emergency patients will be turned away from hospitals unless people begin to obey the rules.
"When will they realise what's really going on?" asks an intensive care nurse, expressing her anger at anti-lockdown protesters in the Sunday People.
Ameera Sheikh says demonstrators - who will never have to zip up a body bag - need to realise the "world doesn't revolve around them".
The Sunday Telegraph says every police officer has been told to issue a £200 fine to people breaching Covid rules if they refuse to return home at the first time of asking.
The paper says ministers are "dramatically increasing enforcement" in a bid to stave off calls from scientists for tougher restrictions.
A Home Office insider is quoted saying that if there had been 1,000 on Saturday caused by a gunman "running around the country", people would stay at home.
"Doctors raise alarm as Covid strikes down NHS workforce," is the main headline in the Observer.
According to the British Medical Association, there are more than 46,000 hospital staff currently off sick with Covid-19.
The paper says absences at GP surgeries and care homes across the country are also "abnormally high".
There is a warning from the Royal College of General Practitioners that this will further affect the health service's ability to hit the target of dispensing two million doses of the vaccine every week.
Several papers warn that ministers are considering tougher coronavirus restrictions in England amid concerns the current lockdown is not being observed as strictly as the first.
According to the Daily Telegraph, new measures could include banning people from different households exercising together, the introduction of face coverings in offices, and increased fines for rule-breakers.
The Times thinks shops will be told to "get tough", with supermarkets facing a legal requirement to enforce mask wearing and social distancing.
The i claims "shock tactics" will be deployed to scare what it describes as a "complacent" public into following the rules.
It says television cameras are to be taken into more hospitals in coming days in an effort to "hammer home" the human cost in the surge in infections.
The Guardian says it has seen new modelling that suggests 20% of people in England may have had coronavirus.
That figure is said to rise to almost 50% in some areas, meaning the true number of infections could be five times higher than officially thought.
The paper also highlights the effect of the pandemic on the criminal justice system warning that defendants, witnesses and victims face a wait of up to four years for cases to reach court.
It says lawyers are calling for more socially distanced, emergency courts to tackle the problem.
Care homes 'betrayed' Care home residents have been "betrayed" by the slow rollout of the vaccine, according to the Daily Mail.
It has spoken to 28 care providers who together run hundreds of homes and says 17 reported that not a single resident had received the jab.
Eight managers said they had had no details of when to expect the vaccines, and 13 providers revealed they had outbreaks of the virus in their homes.
The Mail says Health Secretary Matt Hancock promised in December that care home residents would be vaccinated by Christmas and says that a month on, Boris Johnson has admitted just one in 10 has so far been protected.
'Jabs fightback' With the headline, "the big jabs fightback starts today", the Daily Mirror is among a number of papers to feature the opening of seven mass vaccination centres across England this morning.
The Daily Express says each site is capable of treating four patients a minute meaning "thousands" will be inoculated every day.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the number of centres could expand to 50 under government plans.
There is "finally some good news", says the Daily Star, which highlights Matt Hancock's pledge that every adult in the UK will be offered a vaccine by the autumn.
Greg Matthews @happyharada · 9 Jan Hey #Wetherspoons. Can you take down the Covid posters you’ve stuck up in your pub windows? One’s in #Catford, 500m from #Lewishamhospital, which is full of #Covid19 patients. Your posters just encourage people to ignore the lockdown restrictions. Come on.
Mayor of Hackney @mayorofhackney · 15h Today I wrote to Tim Martin & Wetherspoons demanding they remove these shambolic anti-lockdown posters. Totally inappropriate given number of deaths we're seeing locally & pressure on our health services. Staff at Baxter's Court are grt & pubs are hurting, but this is still wrong
Anger as PM's dad gets second jab while Somerset woman, 92, not told when she'll have her first
THE family of a 92-year-old Somerset woman have complained that she has no idea when she is likely to get the Covid-19 vaccine - despite the the Prime Minister's father receiving his second shot.
Stanley Johnson, who has a home in Winsford, on Exmoor, told daytime television that he was having his second inoculation last Friday. That was given to him in London, where he also has a home.
Mr Johnson, 80, was speaking to ITV's Good Morning Britain three weeks after he was given the first Pfizer jab.
A&E nurse, 43, catches Covid after his second vaccination was postponed when Government changed jab rules David Longden, 43, was given the first Pfizer jab because he worked on frontline His second injection was due to take place on January 5 but was scrapped The guidance changed to try to increase number of people getting first dose Mr Longden said NHS staff were not being adequately protected from the virus
The announcement that the UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning makes the majority of Saturday's front pages.
"Keep out!" the Sun exclaims in its headline - as it says: "UK shuts borders over mutant bugs." "Fortress Britain", declares the i weekend.
The Daily Telegraph points out that while the testing requirements will last until mid-February there were "already signs that travel will not return to normal until well beyond that date".
The new rules could prove a "huge blow to holiday companies and airlines" if prolonged to the peak season, warns the Times, with transport bosses saying airports might have to be "mothballed".
The shadow transport secretary, Jim McMahon, tells the Guardian the announcement was inevitable but "it is closing the door after the horse has bolted".
The Daily Mirror focuses on what it calls the "modern day miracle workers" in intensive care, who are reported to be treating men in their 30s and 40s with Covid-19.
The Mirror, like several other papers, has sent a reporter to see what it calls "the front line of the battle". But he finds no TV drama, just "professional calm".
The Daily Mail calls it "whispered purposefulness", against a backdrop of life support machines which beep like "an aviary of electronic canaries".
A senior nurse in the Guardian describes having nightmares.
In its leader column, the Times urges the government to offer health workers support by ensuring they're given the second vaccine doses now.
The Telegraph reports that GPs are being forced to throw away vaccines if appointments are missed rather than giving the second doses to staff.
A director from the Birmingham Local Medical Committee, which represents GPs, tells the Telegraph the policy is "ridiculous, bordering on the criminal".
The BMA has raised its concerns. An NHS spokesperson says there should be no waste and that vaccination sites should have backup lists of patients and staff who can be immunised at short notice.
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The government-funded Test and Trace service currently employs 2,300 management consultants who are on an average pay of £163,000 - which exceeds Boris Johnson's salary of around £150,000.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9124749/NHS-Test-Trace-paying-2-300-management-consultants-AVERAGE-163-000-EACH.html
A fraudster claiming to be from the NHS administered a fake Covid vaccine to a 92-year-old victim in Surbiton, London. She was injected with an unknown substance but later showed no ill effects.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
The nurse, who has been working for the Hywel Dda University Health Board area, said that she contracted Covid-19 while waiting for the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9127741/Nurse-catches-Covid-three-weeks-getting-vaccine.html
The other contradicts this.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/about-data#daily-and-cumulative-numbers-of-tests
In Sunday's papers, there is a renewed focus on lockdown compliance.
In what the Sunday Times describes as an intervention "designed to shock", England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty tells the paper that emergency patients will be turned away from hospitals unless people begin to obey the rules.
"When will they realise what's really going on?" asks an intensive care nurse, expressing her anger at anti-lockdown protesters in the Sunday People.
Ameera Sheikh says demonstrators - who will never have to zip up a body bag - need to realise the "world doesn't revolve around them".
The Sunday Telegraph says every police officer has been told to issue a £200 fine to people breaching Covid rules if they refuse to return home at the first time of asking.
The paper says ministers are "dramatically increasing enforcement" in a bid to stave off calls from scientists for tougher restrictions.
A Home Office insider is quoted saying that if there had been 1,000 on Saturday caused by a gunman "running around the country", people would stay at home.
"Doctors raise alarm as Covid strikes down NHS workforce," is the main headline in the Observer.
According to the British Medical Association, there are more than 46,000 hospital staff currently off sick with Covid-19.
The paper says absences at GP surgeries and care homes across the country are also "abnormally high".
There is a warning from the Royal College of General Practitioners that this will further affect the health service's ability to hit the target of dispensing two million doses of the vaccine every week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-55606564
Several papers warn that ministers are considering tougher coronavirus restrictions in England amid concerns the current lockdown is not being observed as strictly as the first.
According to the Daily Telegraph, new measures could include banning people from different households exercising together, the introduction of face coverings in offices, and increased fines for rule-breakers.
The Times thinks shops will be told to "get tough", with supermarkets facing a legal requirement to enforce mask wearing and social distancing.
The i claims "shock tactics" will be deployed to scare what it describes as a "complacent" public into following the rules.
It says television cameras are to be taken into more hospitals in coming days in an effort to "hammer home" the human cost in the surge in infections.
The Guardian says it has seen new modelling that suggests 20% of people in England may have had coronavirus.
That figure is said to rise to almost 50% in some areas, meaning the true number of infections could be five times higher than officially thought.
The paper also highlights the effect of the pandemic on the criminal justice system warning that defendants, witnesses and victims face a wait of up to four years for cases to reach court.
It says lawyers are calling for more socially distanced, emergency courts to tackle the problem.
Care homes 'betrayed'
Care home residents have been "betrayed" by the slow rollout of the vaccine, according to the Daily Mail.
It has spoken to 28 care providers who together run hundreds of homes and says 17 reported that not a single resident had received the jab.
Eight managers said they had had no details of when to expect the vaccines, and 13 providers revealed they had outbreaks of the virus in their homes.
The Mail says Health Secretary Matt Hancock promised in December that care home residents would be vaccinated by Christmas and says that a month on, Boris Johnson has admitted just one in 10 has so far been protected.
'Jabs fightback'
With the headline, "the big jabs fightback starts today", the Daily Mirror is among a number of papers to feature the opening of seven mass vaccination centres across England this morning.
The Daily Express says each site is capable of treating four patients a minute meaning "thousands" will be inoculated every day.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the number of centres could expand to 50 under government plans.
There is "finally some good news", says the Daily Star, which highlights Matt Hancock's pledge that every adult in the UK will be offered a vaccine by the autumn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-55613592
Greg Matthews
@happyharada
·
9 Jan
Hey #Wetherspoons. Can you take down the Covid posters you’ve stuck up in your pub windows? One’s in #Catford, 500m from #Lewishamhospital, which is full of #Covid19 patients. Your posters just encourage people to ignore the lockdown restrictions. Come on.
Mayor of Hackney
@mayorofhackney
·
15h
Today I wrote to Tim Martin & Wetherspoons demanding they remove these shambolic anti-lockdown posters. Totally inappropriate given number of deaths we're seeing locally & pressure on our health services.
Staff at Baxter's Court are grt & pubs are hurting, but this is still wrong
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/news/2020/11/wetherspoon-news-do-lockdowns-work
THE family of a 92-year-old Somerset woman have complained that she has no idea when she is likely to get the Covid-19 vaccine - despite the the Prime Minister's father receiving his second shot.
Stanley Johnson, who has a home in Winsford, on Exmoor, told daytime television that he was having his second inoculation last Friday. That was given to him in London, where he also has a home.
Mr Johnson, 80, was speaking to ITV's Good Morning Britain three weeks after he was given the first Pfizer jab.
https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/19001407.anger-pms-dad-gets-second-jab-somerset-woman-92-not-told-first/
A&E nurse, 43, catches Covid after his second vaccination was postponed when Government changed jab rules
David Longden, 43, was given the first Pfizer jab because he worked on frontline
His second injection was due to take place on January 5 but was scrapped
The guidance changed to try to increase number of people getting first dose
Mr Longden said NHS staff were not being adequately protected from the virus
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9138601/A-E-nurse-43-catches-Covid-second-vaccination-postponed.html?ci=67799&si=22202345
The announcement that the UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning makes the majority of Saturday's front pages.
"Keep out!" the Sun exclaims in its headline - as it says: "UK shuts borders over mutant bugs." "Fortress Britain", declares the i weekend.
The Daily Telegraph points out that while the testing requirements will last until mid-February there were "already signs that travel will not return to normal until well beyond that date".
The new rules could prove a "huge blow to holiday companies and airlines" if prolonged to the peak season, warns the Times, with transport bosses saying airports might have to be "mothballed".
The shadow transport secretary, Jim McMahon, tells the Guardian the announcement was inevitable but "it is closing the door after the horse has bolted".
The Daily Mirror focuses on what it calls the "modern day miracle workers" in intensive care, who are reported to be treating men in their 30s and 40s with Covid-19.
The Mirror, like several other papers, has sent a reporter to see what it calls "the front line of the battle". But he finds no TV drama, just "professional calm".
The Daily Mail calls it "whispered purposefulness", against a backdrop of life support machines which beep like "an aviary of electronic canaries".
A senior nurse in the Guardian describes having nightmares.
In its leader column, the Times urges the government to offer health workers support by ensuring they're given the second vaccine doses now.
The Telegraph reports that GPs are being forced to throw away vaccines if appointments are missed rather than giving the second doses to staff.
A director from the Birmingham Local Medical Committee, which represents GPs, tells the Telegraph the policy is "ridiculous, bordering on the criminal".
The BMA has raised its concerns. An NHS spokesperson says there should be no waste and that vaccination sites should have backup lists of patients and staff who can be immunised at short notice.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-55684785
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9154145/GPs-forced-THROW-AWAY-leftover-vaccines.html