内容摘要：The IDF accused the journalist of being a Hamas operative and alleged that the hospital was being used by the group to "carry out terrorist plots".

The IDF accused the journalist of being a Hamas operative and alleged that the hospital was being used by the group to "carry out terrorist plots".

On 12 August 2020, he wrote about a meeting with the prime minister and his senior aides, including then chief adviser Dominic Cummings and cabinet secretary Simon Case."Instinct of this crew is to go for more enforcement and punitive measures," he wrote.

"We suggested more carrot and incentives [were] required to make people take a test, self-isolate etc, but they always want to go for stick not carrot."Asked who he was referring to in that entry, Lord Vallance said it would have been the "decision-makers for policy".In another entry, on 25 September 2020, as Covid cases were rising once again, he quoted Boris Johnson as saying: "We need a lot more punishments and a lot more closing down".

And in a further entry on 7 January 2021, just after the start of the third nationwide lockdown, he wrote: "PM says: 'We haven't been ruthless enough. We need to force more isolation. I favour a more authoritarian approach.'"He added: "Rather late in the day, the PM isn't understanding that incentives (or removal of disincentives) need to be in place to help people."

On 28 September 2020, ministers introduced a legal duty for those who had tested positive for Covid or were contacted by the test-and-trace service to self-isolate in England. It was announced that fines of between £1,000 and £10,000 would be imposed on repeat offenders.

Test-and-trace support payments of £500 were also offered for those on lower incomes.This was a fall of 81% compared with the previous 12 months. The number coming to work in the sector had increased significantly after

"We're reliant on migrant workers to keep social care going at the moment," says Lee-Ann Fenge, professor of social care at Bournemouth University.She said she does not believe new technology should be used as a way of filling the gaps in the sector.

She said "It needs to be seen as a tool that enhances the work that is already happening."She added time needed to be taken to "think about some of the ethical challenges" that monitoring people could have.