Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Dean Russell Excerpts
Monday 12th October 2020

(4 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am proud of this Government’s record in raising the living wage by record sums. The hon. Lady will have heard what I said earlier about continuing with our support for universal credit—continuing with the uplift in universal credit—for the whole of this financial year.

Dean Russell Portrait Dean Russell (Watford) (Con)
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While I was volunteering just this morning at Watford General Hospital, where it happens to be Think Clean week, the wonderful specialist infection prevention and control support worker Cheryl Atkins used an ultraviolet system to show me how easily this or any virus can spread through poor hand hygiene. Does the Prime Minister agree that it is incumbent on us all to fight covid by washing our hands regularly and by following the incredibly simple yet tremendously powerful guidance of “Hands, face, space”?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I agree totally with my hon. Friend, and it should be Think Clean week in Watford and across the whole of the UK.