So there is grave – and justified – concern over Westminster’s failure to ensure the distribution of decent protective gear to doctors, nurses and carers. ‘I have to self-isolate, without a test at present, for 14 days from initiation of her symptoms,’ he wrote. ‘We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test,’ said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation. If there is insufficient testing, carers will rightly take time off when they get a fever, cough or headache. There is one other key point about testing frontline staff: they can carry on working safely after being found to have had the disease rather than taking time off for every sneeze.

Source: Daily Mail March 18, 2020 22:13 UTC