Professor Philip Nolan:

We do not have time to go through this right now, but I do not necessarily believe that we have a high infection rate among healthcare workers. The peak infection rate among healthcare workers here was approximately 1%, and that is despite very high levels of testing. Many people who are very close to me are healthcare workers and I am anxious that they are protected, but I am also anxious that we work with the facts. What we are looking at is the proportion of cases that are among healthcare workers, which is not a good measure. Perhaps in other circumstances we could work through this question. While healthcare workers are at risk, it is not clear as yet that there was a greater incidence of disease among them in this country in comparison with others.