Boris Johnson has said is is not true the UK Government ordered a pharmaceutical company to reserve additional Covid tests for England last year.
Earlier this week WalesOnline reported Public Health Wales emails claimed that the UK Government had torpedoed Wales’ deal to secure 5,000 tests a day from pharmaceutical company Roche.
The collapse of the alleged deal meant that Wales fell well short of its Covid testing target at the height of the first wave of the pandemic.
In Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wedneday, Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams challenged the Prime Minister on the incident.
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He said: “In March last year this United Kingdom…
