Ministers have been accused of making Public Health England (PHE) a scapegoat by scrapping the body for alleged failures in the testing and tracing of coronavirus.
Health secretary Matt Hancock announced that PHE’s pandemic response will merge with NHS Test and Trace to immediately form a new body, the National Institute for Health Protection.
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