Health
UK firms awarded billions in NHS/government contracts amid failure of COVID-19 testing system – WSWS
The largest intended privatisation is the £100 billion-plus expansion of the national coronavirus testing programme “Operation Moonshot.”
By
Julie Hyland
21 September 2020
The pandemic is being used as a cover for privatisation of what remains of the National Health Service (NHS).
Tens of thousands are being exposed to COVID-19, forced into unsafe workplaces, schools and universities. The global pandemic has now claimed the lives of more than 963,000. According to heavily massaged official figures in the UK, 41,777 have died and 394,257 have been infected.
With cases rising exponentially, many are unable to get tested and t…
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