APPG on Coronavirus

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To ensure that lessons are learned from the UK’s handling of the outbreak so that the UK’s response and preparedness may be improved in future.

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    May 4

    Today the APPG is hearing evidence on Covid passports. We will hear evidence from experts academics, officials representing the Premier League and the Airport Operators Association. Watch live below 👇🏼 Or on Youtube & Facebook.

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  2. 8 hours ago

    APPG Chair says the Covid public inquiry must look into the delay in adding India to the red list. "It does appear that Boris Johnson put the pursuit of a post-Brexit trade deal with India ahead of public health."

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  3. 11 hours ago

    APPG Vice Chair Dr Dan Poulter has said an immediate investigation is needed into why there have been so many covid related deaths in care homes, so lessons are learned ahead of a potential third wave.

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    16 hours ago

    It does appear that Boris Johnson put the pursuit of a post-Brexit trade deal with India ahead of public health. The Covid public inquiry must look into this decision and whether it was influenced by politics and not the science.

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  5. 16 hours ago

    We've written to Boris Johnson calling for the chair and panel of the Covid inquiry to be picked through a cross-party process to avoid political bias. We're also concerned that the current timetable of spring 2022 will mean lessons go unlearned ahead of a potential third wave.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    Read the full transcript here:

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  7. 18 hours ago

    Matt Hancock challenged by about the evidence we heard last month from Lucy Moreton of the Immigration Services Union. She said quarantine controls at our borders are often based on trust, including asking if someone's visited a red list country in the past ten days

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  8. 19 hours ago

    We have written to Boris Johnson demanding that the chair and panel of the Covid inquiry are decided on a cross-party basis, rather than being hand-picked by the UK government. Read more in today's

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    May 15

    The delay to banning travel from India will "no doubt come to be seen as a catastrophic error of judgment," , chair of , tells . , shadow home secretary, says the PM "has serious questions to answer".

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  10. May 15

    At least 20,000 passengers who could have been infected with the Indian variant were able to enter the UK while Boris Johnson delayed imposing travel restrictions. Chair of the APPG says this was a "catastrophic error of judgement."

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  11. Retweeted
    May 14

    Question we have to keep coming back to is why, when our vaccination programme is going well, the government did not decide to enforce tighter border control to prevent new variants from arriving. India was added to the red list weeks after cases were spiking there.

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  12. May 14

    Layla Moran, chair of the APPG on coronavirus, said: “Boris Johnson must take responsibility for the failure to prevent the Indian variant taking root in the UK. “Once again the government acted too late, and the country is sadly paying the price.”

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    May 14

    Boris Johnson must take responsibility for the failure to prevent the Indian variant taking root in the UK. Once again the Government acted too late, and the country is sadly paying the price.🧵(1/4)

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  14. May 14

    The rise in cases of the Indian variant is deeply concerning. The government must rethink its flawed approach to international travel and focus on preventing the importation of variants, which scientists agree pose the biggest risk to progress made

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  15. May 13

    The government must rethink its flawed approach to international travel and focus on preventing the importation of variants, which scientists agree pose the biggest risk to our hard-won progress against Covid-19 5/5

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  16. May 13

    Our cross-party report has called for countries to be added to the 'red list' as soon as variants of concern are identified, and for quarantine rules to then come into force with immediate effect 4/5

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  17. May 13

    Ministers only added India to the red list several weeks after this mutation was identified as a variant of concern, by which time it was too late. 3/5

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  18. May 13

    These figures are deeply concerning and suggest the government failed to act swiftly enough to prevent the Indian variant being imported into the UK 2/5

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  19. May 13

    The latest figures from Public Health England show cases of the Indian variant have more than doubled in the past week to 1,313 1/5

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  20. May 13

    Scientists are warning the government's travel plan will let new variants into the UK We are calling for curbs on international travel to protect against variants and prevent a third wave, along with financial support for the travel industry.

    Covid-19 traffic light travel plan 'will let variants into the UK'
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  21. May 12

    Delaying the inquiry risks letting the government "off the hook for the catastrophic mistakes made in the early stages of the pandemic”.

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