Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSSwine flu cases fall as Government abandons weekly briefings
Weekly Government briefings on swine flu have been stopped as the number of new cases plummet
The Department of Health made the call after figures showed the number of new cases had significantly fallen over the past month - from 9,000 over a week in mid-December to fewer than 5,000 last week.
A Government spokeswoman said that the lack of “sufficient new content” had led to the decision to abandon the weekly briefings.
She added: “However, if there are any emerging developments we shall restore these. To ensure that journalists are kept up-to-date with statistical trends, a fortnightly bulletin will be issued starting Thursday 21 January together with an interpretative quote from the Chief Medical Officer.”
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Anonymous | 20-Jan-2010 6:45 pm
Why are we now vaccinating the under fives?, is it to use up the vaccine, so that it doesn't look so bad that we bought so much?? Is there any reseach available yet about about long term effects of having the swine flu vaccine, or better reporting of the side effects? I haven't seen any
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