Living with Covid-19 Debate

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Living with Covid-19

Holly Mumby-Croft Excerpts
Monday 21st February 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We have already secured more antivirals and therapeutics per head than any other country in Europe. We need to ensure that the clinically extremely vulnerable have access to them, and 1.3 million of them have already been sent tests.

Holly Mumby-Croft Portrait Holly Mumby-Croft (Scunthorpe) (Con)
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While the threat from covid has changed—thanks in no small part to the outstanding vaccination efforts led by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—he will know that the effects on local hospitals will last for years to come. Does he agree that now is the right time to invest in upgrades to hospitals such as Scunthorpe’s?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Now is exactly the right time to invest in hospitals such as Scunthorpe’s and across the country. I cannot commit to the particular project that my hon. Friend describes, but that is the kind of project, 48 of which we are progressing across the country.