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Good Morning Britain star Adil Ray was accused of "turning into" former presenter Piers Morgan on Monday's show when a passionate debate took a heated turn.

Fines for breaching Covid rules forcing people to self-isolate could be upped from £1,000 to £,5000, it has been reported.

NHS Test and Trace boss Dido Harding has defended spending £1,000 a day on consultants.

Test and Trace operation has disappeared to, amid the mounting national crisis. Baroness Dido Harding has been labelled “Dido Hiding” by critics looking for answers over the scheme’s performance.She is head of the £22billion ­programme, but has not been seen in public, nor on virtual screenings, since early November.Then, she told MPs she and her team did not see the rise in infections coming after schools went back following the summer.Shadow Health Minister Justin Madders said: “Harding should be there to answer questions.“There have been lots of chances to stand next to the PM at press briefings or to do her own.

The husband of Test and Trace boss Dido Harding was celebrating his constituency being exempt from the toughest Covid restrictions.

Campaigners have submitted a legal challenge alleging that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock acted “unlawfully” when appointing key figures to top posts during the coronavirus crisis, it has been reported.

Boris Johnson’s failing covid test and trace system has been told to self-isolate by the phone app designed to alert people they have been exposed to coronavirus.

A former Sainsbury's boss once caught singing "We're in the Money" over a £12billion merger will take up a key role at the beleaguered testing programme.

Boris Johnson has complained about "unjustified" attacks from Keir Starmer over the Test and Trace shambles.

Companies and individuals could be forced to pay for rapid turnaround coronavirus tests as the "cost of doing business" when they become available, the head of NHS Test and Trace has warned.

Boris Johnson is coming under pressure to explain how Test and Trace chief Dido Harding can be both a senior civil servant and take the Tory whip.

The past couple of weeks have proved difficult for many people in Greater Manchester trying to book a coronavirus test.Everyone in the UK is now eligible to request a test, but the NHS Test and Trace appears to be struggling with high demand. Many people have reported issues when trying to book a test, such as being offered an appointment miles from home, or not at all.

Bolton in the last two weeks was 'two to three times higher' than in other parts of the country, according to the test and trace boss. Baroness Dido Harding said over 13,000 people were tested in the borough in last 14 days.That is 'two to three times' higher than the average number of tests being carried out across the rest of England.

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Dido Harding won't get paid to run Matt Hancock's new replacement for Public Health England, the Mirror has learned.

The chair of the national coronavirus test and trace system says it is getting ‘better and better’ and local contact tracers could start knocking on people’s doors.Baroness Dido Harding said the £10 billion programme – which is designed to track people who have been in contact with positive Covid-19 cases – is currently ‘working well’.She added that she ‘refused to apologise for spare capacity’ after the Guardian reported that contact tracers were only making a ‘handful of calls a month’.It was also confirmed that councils across England are now to be offered real-time data on infections and a dedicated teams of contact tracers.“It’s happening now in Leicester, Luton, Blackburn so that we can join up the local contact tracing and the

to pay workers who need to quarantine for two weeks ‘fairly’.There are concerns that some people in unstable employment or who don’t qualify for sick pay will feel forced to continue working to make ends meet when they should be isolating after coming into contact with a coronavirus case.Many people are employed in roles which are impossible to do from home, and may face losing out on two weeks of wages.Baroness Dido Harding, the executive chair of NHS test and trace, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that people should be accessing benefits to fill the gap in their income.“I really understand how hard it is for people to take two weeks out of their life and self-isolate, particularly if you don’t feel ill,” she said.“But if you

The boss of outsourcing giant Serco has defended the fact that 10,000 contact tracers have only spoken to an average of 2.4 people each.

press briefing from Downing Street  today, Baroness Dido Harding said that more information about how antibodies protect patients from catching coronavirus for a second time was needed before any further roll out is announced. Currently, only those working in health or care settings are eligible for antibody testing.Clinicians can also request tests for patients if they think it’s appropriate.Baroness Harding said there were no plans to roll out antibody testing to the general public at this stage.