Britain’s new £1 billion ($1.3B) pandemic strategy treats a future outbreak as a “certainty” and proposes building a contact tracing system that would feed on real-time location data harvested with the help of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies.
The plan, published by the Department of Health and Social Care, also calls for PPE stockpiles, new emergency legislation, and a biosecurity research hub in Essex. [Read More]
NEW - UK government releases new "pandemic plan," as a new pandemic is a "certainty," assigns £1B for new contact-tracing system, to stockpile PPE, fund a new "bio-security hub" and introduce a "All Pandemics Hazard Bill" to enable adjusting of emergency measures — Telegraph pic.twitter.com/FZQumdDtDX
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Congress has enacted legislation allocating at least $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding to finance pandemic and outbreak preparedness in fiscal year 2026 - despite no declared pandemic and no formal emergency authorization.
The funding is contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 7148), which President Donald Trump signed into law on February 3, 2026, after the bill passed both chambers of Congress and was presented to the White House earlier that day. [Read More]