Covid Action UK responds to the latest risk assessment from the UKHSA, and the limitations of the Government's vaccination booster programme.
Tag: Covid
For Covid-safe trade union and Labour meetings – Covid Action UK
Joan Twelves, Covid Action UK, asks for Labour members and trade unionists to think of the safety of at-risk people when organising in-person meetings.
The Vaccine Strategy without Vaccines – Covid Action UK
In Britain today, we witness how a pandemic like Coronavirus-19 interacts with a dystopian state, where paranoia and misrule preside, argue Joseph Healy and Rowan Fortune.
The Baroness, the VIP lane and PPE profits
The corruption involved in the Tories' PPE and other government contracts throughout the pandemic are well documented. This week, reporting exposed Baroness Mone's financial gain from the fast-track system.
Ministers must not abandon workers with Long Covid
“It’s time to recognise this condition as occupational, and make sure workers who are living with post-Covid symptoms get the support they need."
Covid-19 Pandemic is not over, It is still destroying lives – Covid Action UK
"The Tories claim vaccination is the only protection we need, despite Omicron subvariants continuously breaching vaccine boundaries through mutation, and repeatedly reinfecting the population."
The Johnson government may be on its way out, but Covid isn’t.
"With his cut-price Trumpian populist approach to Covid, Johnson is leaving behind a legacy of social murder, waste, corruption and callousness. He is going as the death toll hits 200,000 deaths."
COVID: Cuba shows how to respond
"When the world comes to analyse the effectiveness of different responses to the pandemic, special attention should be paid to one middle-income island state in the Caribbean - Cuba."
Workers with Long Covid need support – TUC
"We must ensure that workers with Long Covid do not suffer a double burden of discrimination and risk to their livelihoods" - the fight to recognise the needs of those struggling with long-Covid.
Commemorate the lives of health and social care workers – Doctors in Unite
join Doctors in Unite on Thursday at the National Covid Memorial Wall, to remember those who have given their lives while working to keep us all safe.