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There was a “system failure” in the UK’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a public health expert has said. Professor Linda Bauld said the UK was underprepared for a virus like Covid-19, and Europe failed to learn from how south-east Asian countries responded to the pandemic. She said some of the decisions made in the UK “directly contributed” to the second wave, as she described the failure to ramp up contact tracing in March as a “fundamental mistake”. Prof Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, was speaking after the number of UK coronavirus dea...

There was a “system failure” in the UK’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a public health expert has said. Professor Linda Bauld said the UK was underprepared for a virus like Covid-19, and Europe failed to learn from how south-east Asian countries responded to the pandemic. She said some of the decisions made in the UK “directly contributed” to the second wave, as she described the failure to ramp up contact tracing in March as a “fundamental mistake”. Prof Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, was speaking after the number of UK coronavirus dea...

There was a “system failure” in the UK’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a public health expert has said. Professor Linda Bauld said the UK was underprepared for a virus like Covid-19, and Europe failed to learn from how south-east Asian countries responded to the pandemic. She said some of the decisions made in the UK “directly contributed” to the second wave, as she described the failure to ramp up contact tracing in March as a “fundamental mistake”. Prof Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, was speaking after the number of UK coronavirus dea...

“Children’s wards are usually busy in winter. “As of now we are not seeing significant pressure from Covid-19 in paediatrics across the UK,” Prof Viner said in a statement on Saturday. “As cases in the community rise there will be a small increase in the number of children we see with Covid-19, but the overwhelming majority of children and young people have no symptoms or very mild illness only. “The new variant appears to affect all ages and, as yet, we are not seeing any greater severity amongst children and young people.” His comments were supported by a number of paediatrici...

“Children’s wards are usually busy in winter. “As of now we are not seeing significant pressure from Covid-19 in paediatrics across the UK,” Prof Viner said in a statement on Saturday. “As cases in the community rise there will be a small increase in the number of children we see with Covid-19, but the overwhelming majority of children and young people have no symptoms or very mild illness only. “The new variant appears to affect all ages and, as yet, we are not seeing any greater severity amongst children and young people.” His comments were supported by a number of paediatrici...