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Almost 5bn items of personal protective equipment worth £2.7bn will be wasted as they are no longer needed or cannot safeguard NHS staff, UK ministers have revealed.
The huge sum of money involved has prompted the Liberal Democrats to accuse the government of “extreme negligence on an industrial scale” in its use of public funds during the pandemic.
As cases continue to increase, the priority for whole genome sequencing will be to highlight patterns of virus spread rather than individual cases,” it said.
