Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England

Tory peer has been widely criticised over responsibility for England’s test-and-trace system

Dido Harding, a Conservative peer who heads up England’s widely criticised test-and-trace system, has been chosen to run a new institute to replace Public Health England, after the controversial decision to axe the agency.

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