Chancellor Rishi Sunak is pressing ahead with the strategy of scrapping public Covid testing, with the aim to reduce the cost from £15bn to £1.5bn. Here are the finances, distilled. Limiting testing to patients admitted to hospitals only was the public health strategy in March 2020. It resulted in tens of thousands of Covid deaths and a wave of Long Covid patients, many of whom are coming to their second anniversary of “living with Covid” without treatment.
Live with covid, distilled.
According to the ONS, an estimated 1.3 million people are living Long-COVID. 554,000 (42%) first had the virus at least one year previously.
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