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| Covid: Delay surgery after Omicron and support fraud's impact on taxpayers | Covid: Delay surgery after Omicron and support fraud's impact on taxpayers |
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| Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening. | Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening. |
| 1. Delay surgery advice after Omicron | 1. Delay surgery advice after Omicron |
| As a precaution, delay elective surgery by at least seven weeks if you have just had Omicron. This is the advice being issued to NHS hospitals - already under pressure due to backlogs of routine operations - by surgery and anaesthesia experts. They say the first couple of months post infection is riskier and is linked to poorer recovery, but acknowledged urgent surgery should go ahead. | As a precaution, delay elective surgery by at least seven weeks if you have just had Omicron. This is the advice being issued to NHS hospitals - already under pressure due to backlogs of routine operations - by surgery and anaesthesia experts. They say the first couple of months post infection is riskier and is linked to poorer recovery, but acknowledged urgent surgery should go ahead. |
| 2. Covid support fraud's impact on taxpayers | 2. Covid support fraud's impact on taxpayers |
| An "unacceptable" level of mistakes, waste and fraud from the Covid support loan scheme will have a lasting impact on taxpayers. That's according to Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee, who says the government must be held to account. The Treasury rejects the claims, however previous official figures estimated the government is unlikely to recoup up to £21bn of Covid loans to business. | An "unacceptable" level of mistakes, waste and fraud from the Covid support loan scheme will have a lasting impact on taxpayers. That's according to Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee, who says the government must be held to account. The Treasury rejects the claims, however previous official figures estimated the government is unlikely to recoup up to £21bn of Covid loans to business. |
| 3. Hong Kong's Covid plan | 3. Hong Kong's Covid plan |
| Hong Kong's battling the worst wave of coronavirus infections it's had since the start of the pandemic and has ordered the compulsory testing of all of its 7.5 million citizens. Hospitals are full and the number of cases have soared. The city, which has advocated a zero-Covid policy, has been brought to its knees by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. So what went wrong? We've investigated. | Hong Kong's battling the worst wave of coronavirus infections it's had since the start of the pandemic and has ordered the compulsory testing of all of its 7.5 million citizens. Hospitals are full and the number of cases have soared. The city, which has advocated a zero-Covid policy, has been brought to its knees by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. So what went wrong? We've investigated. |
| 4. Boots to sell Covid tests | 4. Boots to sell Covid tests |
| There's been mixed reaction to plans by Pharmacy Boots to sell single Covid tests for £5.99. They're available from today even though you can get kits through the NHS until 1 April - the date when free testing ends as part of the government's "living with Covid" plan. Boots says it's started selling them to prepare customers and supply chains but the GMB union describes the move as "rampant profiteering". | There's been mixed reaction to plans by Pharmacy Boots to sell single Covid tests for £5.99. They're available from today even though you can get kits through the NHS until 1 April - the date when free testing ends as part of the government's "living with Covid" plan. Boots says it's started selling them to prepare customers and supply chains but the GMB union describes the move as "rampant profiteering". |
| 5. Festival fever | 5. Festival fever |
| The pandemic put a halt to music festivals but they're making a comeback. After a two-year absence Splendour returns with a star-studded line-up. The likes of Richard Ashcroft, Craig David presents TS5 and Human league will be performing during the two-day event in Nottingham in July. And in Bristol, a new festival with a capacity of 60,000 over two days, Forwards, has been announced for September, with The Chemical Brothers headlining. | The pandemic put a halt to music festivals but they're making a comeback. After a two-year absence Splendour returns with a star-studded line-up. The likes of Richard Ashcroft, Craig David presents TS5 and Human league will be performing during the two-day event in Nottingham in July. And in Bristol, a new festival with a capacity of 60,000 over two days, Forwards, has been announced for September, with The Chemical Brothers headlining. |
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| And there's more... | And there's more... |
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