UK BOOSTS HEALTHCARE FUNDING TO WARD OFF WINTER COVID-19 WAVE

Reuters - Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to pour 3 billion pounds into England’s National Health Service (NHS) to try to ward off any resurgence of the coronavirus. Britain is the worst-affected country in Europe by COVID-19 with a death toll from confirmed cases of more than 45,000. The government has faced criticism over several different aspects of its response to the pandemic, including that it was too slow to impose a lockdown and failed to ramp up testing capacity quickly enough [...]. The 3 billion pound cash boost for the state-funded health system would be made available immediately, and the use of private hospitals and temporary field hospitals would be permitted until March, the government...>>>