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The Committee

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Initial release 1968
Directors Peter Sykes
Screenplay Peter Sykes
Languages English Language
Composers Pink Floyd
Arthur Brown
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The Committee is a 1968 British independent black-and-white film noir film. It featured original music by Pink Floyd as well as Arthur Brown's song "Nightmare".

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Coronavirus-out test will be rolled out to more public service staff

Nov 24,2023 1:31 pm

Coronavirus Test is introduced, people said the work in public services such as police, fire and jail personnel, health Secretary to Matt Hancock .

the capacity is increased "sharp" but not so many NHS employees had come forward that was expected for the tests, He Said .

The government said 21,328-tests were carried out on Thursday, but it had capacity for a minimum of 38,000.

Meanwhile, scientists.

But the Business Secretary Alok Sharma said there were "no guarantees" and it was not possible to set a date when a vaccine would be created.

the production is "a colossal undertaking" and "a complex process that takes many months," He Said to the government, the daily press briefing.

It Comes as the UK included 847 new coronavirus-related deaths in the hospitals, the on Thursday, taking the total to 14,576.

The figure does not include hundreds more who have died in nursing homes and in the community.

Speak of, the said by video link to an online conference, The Commons health committee earlier, Mr Steiner, that the government had prioritised Tests for hospital patients and NHS workers, before the extension to residents and staff in social care.

He added that around 50,000 NHS employees have been tested So Far .

But He Said it was "frustrating", were there was a capacity for more than 10,000 tests per day, on Thursday.

The government has set a target of 100,000 tests per day until The End of April.

suitability for the Tests will also be extended to critical local authority employees, the judiciary and the Department for work and pensions-employees, He Said .

"are We able to do that because of the scale-up of the audit," he added.

Mr Hancock said he hoped someone with Symptoms , which would be able to be approved "relatively quickly".

"Now we have The Curve under control, I would like to be able to test again The Position in which we can, each with Symptoms and I expect to be able to do that relatively soon, because we increase the capacity, so how I say it," He Said .

Matt Wrack , the General Secretary of The Fire Brigades Union, welcomed the expansion of the examination.

However, he added: "It is a shame it has come to The End , with thousands of firefighters already self-isolate - this is something that could easily have been avoided. "

Mr. Flow said, it also subjects were, how accessible is the testing, with many test centers far outside of the city.

Dame Donna Kinnair, chief executive of The Royal College of Nursing, told The Committee some of the sick NHS workers were forced to drive for up to two hours to be tested.

"wave"

Also in relation to The Committee , Prof Anthony Costello, Director of the University College London's Institute for Global Health, said it could be, and 40,000 deaths in the United Kingdom as a result of the Corona-Virus-pandemic.

He Said that Britain was reacting "too slowly" on A Number of fronts to The Crisis , which may lead to "probably the highest death rate in Europe".

Sir Patrick Vallance , the government's chief scientific adviser, had previously said it would be a "good result".

warning that the United Kingdom would be, "said wave" of The Virus , Prof Costello, a system should be introduced that "not only a certain number of tests in The Laboratory ," but that in "district and community level".

speaking at The Briefing , Sir Patrick said it was at the beginning of a "gradual reduction" in The Number of coronavirus patients in London, hospitals, and a flattening or decline in other areas.

"The numbers are not only on a Plateau , but beginning to, in some areas, and translate that into less people in the intensive care unit at the appropriate time," He Said .

"But you don't expect to be this fast. This is not a sudden drop, there will be a Plateau - it will take a while until the numbers come right down and that is why it is important that we continue with the strong social distancing measures that we have implemented. "

Sir Patrick added that he expects that The Number of corona virus-related deaths continue to come to the Plateau "for a while", before you start to slow down.

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Source of news: bbc.com

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