Labour: As in the general population, we need mass testing, contact tracing, shielding and PPE in prisons to make sure the virus does not spread out of control

Tuesday, 28 April 2020 09:29

Responding to a Public Health England report showing that the number of prisoners believed to have been infected with coronavirus may be up to six times as many as the published figure, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy MP said:   “The truth is that the government does not know the true scale of the covid-19 outbreak in prisons because very few staff and prisoners have been tested for the virus.    “Explosive outbreaks in...Request free trial