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Assistant manager Claire Welford administers a coronavirus swab test on resident Harry Hall, 94, at the Eothen Homes care home in Whitley Bay, Tyneside, where all staff and residents are being tested for coronavirus
THE government is on course to miss its target of conducting 200,000 coronavirus tests per day by the weekend, compounding its failure to hit last month’s.
On May 6, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “the ambition clearly is to get up to 200,000 a day” by the end of the month, which is on Monday.
Labour has accused the government of “moving the goalposts” in order to appear to meet its previous target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, by counting tests that had been sent out or conducted, but had yet to return results.
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs