Newspaper headlines: Tests 'failure' and masks warning
Downing Street sources have criticised Matt Hancock’s pledge to test 100,000 people a day for coronavirus by the end of the month as arbitrary and irrational, reports the Daily Telegraph. In what the paper says is a sign that senior Whitehall figures are distancing themselves from the target, a No 10 insider is quoted as saying the pledge threatens to “come back and bite” the health secretary.
More than 100 top medics have signed a letter urging the public to wear face masks when they leave the house, according to the Daily Star. “Zorronation street” is the paper’s headline – a reference to the fictional vigilante Zorro.But the Times reports that ministers have been warned by NHS bosses that advising members of the public to wear the masks risks jeopardising critical supplies to frontline health workers.
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