George Parker Author Rss https://faqinsurances.com/author/george-parker/ George Parker Author Rss - Faqs of Insurances Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://faqinsurances.com https://faqinsurances.com/public/skin/logo.png George Parker Author Rss https://faqinsurances.com/author/george-parker/ 144 144 <![CDATA[Payout expected to be extended to families of victims who contracted HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated transfusions ]]> https://faqinsurances.com/2023/05/09/payout-expected-to-be-extended-to-families-of-victims-who-contracted-hiv-and-hepatitis-c-from-contaminated-transfusions/ Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:01 +0000 https://faqinsurances.com/2023/05/09/payout-expected-to-be-extended-to-families-of-victims-who-contracted-hiv-and-hepatitis-c-from-contaminated-transfusions/ The compensation bill for those affected by the NHS contaminated blood scandal could reach £10bn, according to officials, in a further blow to the UK’s stretched public finances.

Ministers have accepted the “moral case” for compensating families of the victims of the scandal, in which tens of thousands of people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through tainted blood transfusions.

This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:George Parker

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The British government said on Thursday it was reviewing whether to carry out Covid checks on arrivals from China, as pressure mounted on prime minister Rishi Sunak to act.

Downing Street insisted there were no plans “at the moment” to reimpose controls; such a move would be likely to add to airport congestion during a period of strikes by Border Force staff.

But senior Tories said controls at airports on arrivals from China could help detect new Covid variants, an approach now being deployed in Italy but so far rejected by other EU countries.

The UK’s Health Security Agency is monitoring the prevalence and spread of harmful variants and Downing Street said it would take into account all available international data.

This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:George Parker

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