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Australia rejected millions of face masks provided by PPE Medpro suppliers
Exclusive: Suppliers for firm linked to UK peer Michelle Mone helped source Covid masks for Australian government that were found unusable Suppliers of PPE for a company linked to the…
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Australian government paid millions for unusable Covid face masks from obscure online retailer
Exclusive: almost 46m masks turned out to be unusable after $100m in contracts were awarded to company with little apparent pre-pandemic experience in PPE supply Pandemic PPE: how Australia entrusted…
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Pandemic PPE: how Australia entrusted a small-time retailer with $100m and got 46m unusable masks
As the world scrambled desperately for protective equipment in 2020, Australia made a hasty deal with a virtually unknown supplier. It went disastrously wrong Exclusive: Australian government paid millions for…
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There are new scientific insights into long Covid – but political will is waning | Danny Altmann
For many people, Covid is not a thing of the past. A renewed effort is needed to find out exactly what it is, and how to treat it Among the…
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The No 1 lesson from Covid-19, Ebola and Spanish flu? Countries must learn to work together, pandemic and emergency expert says
The world seems to quickly forget health emergencies such as Spanish flu, the 2014 Ebola outbreak and Covid-19, says Joanne Liu, who believes countries need to present a united front…
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No 10 says 40% of trains must always run under new laws to limit impact of strikes to be brought in by Christmas – as it happened
Government aiming to limit rights of railway workers, ambulance staff and border officials to go on strike. This live blog is closed Rishi Sunak has not accepted that Suella Braverman’s…
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Boris Johnson said Rishi Sunak’s Treasury was ‘pro-death squad’, inquiry hears – video
Citing a diary entry by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, Dermot Keating, a counsel to the official Covid inquiry, said Johnson referred to the Treasury under Sunak…
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Boris Johnson called Treasury ‘the pro-death squad’, Covid inquiry told
Incumbent PM made joke about Rishi Sunak’s department because of its focus on lifting restrictions, according to diary entries UK politics live – latest updates Boris Johnson referred to Rishi…
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Michelle Mone admits involvement with ‘VIP lane’ PPE company
Exclusive: Tory peer and husband, Douglas Barrowman, had repeatedly denied roles in firm given £200m government Covid contracts The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that…
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Shangri-La Hotel’s Hui Kuok braves new world of social media to share stories on life, goals with staff, guests
Kuok Hui Kwong opened a Xiaohongshu account in October 2021, offering an insight into her life and thoughts. If there was one valuable lesson the Shangri-la heiress learned during the…