Coronavirus: Dido Harding to be temporary head of new health agency

Coronavirus: Dido Harding to be temporary head of new health agency Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace in England, is to be the interim chief of the government's new Health Protection Institute.

The agency - set to launch on Tuesday - will merge some of Public Health England's (PHE) pandemic response work with the coronavirus test and trace system.

Lady Harding will run the new institute until a permanent appointment is made. BBC News

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• Government AXE 'obstructive' PHE after litany of disaster from testing to death figures - but replace it with body run by Tory Baroness whose husband called for department to be abolished The Daily Mail
• Dido Harding to run agency replacing Public Health England The Guardian
• Dido Harding: confident, loyal – but with precious little relevant experience The Guardian
• Dido Harding set to head agency replacing Public Health England The Independent