Coronavirus: ‘Herculean effort’ to provide NHS protective gear – BBC News

The UK will now ensure daily deliveries of personal protective equipment to frontline workers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.

He told the daily coronavirus briefing it had been a “Herculean effort”, after criticism the government was not doing enough to protect critical NHS staff.

Officials told the briefing the lockdown was “beginning to pay off” but it was still a “dangerous situation”.

The UK recorded another 980 hospital deaths, bringing the total to 8,958.

But England’s deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, warned it was “impossible to say we have peaked,” adding that the measures the country was taking with social distancing needed to continue.

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Matt Hancock is a British Member of Parliament, who is serving as Health Secretary under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Hancock was alleged to have been having an affair, after photographs emerged of him apparently kissing a woman at his Ministerial workplace were published by The Sun newspaper on 25 June 2021.

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