Four new implementation committees focusing on health, public sector preparedness, economy and international response, will feed into a new daily C-19 (Coronavirus) meeting chaired by the prime minister.
The chairs of the implementation committees - the chancellor, the health secretary, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the foreign secretary - will attend the daily C-19 meeting.
As chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Michael Gove (pictured) will help oversee issues surrounding critical national infrastructure in the meetings.
The committee meetings run alongside the regular UK COBR meetings where the prime minister takes strategic decisions and reviews overall progress against the coronavirus pandemic.
The additional C-19 meetings will monitor progress and refine the measures agreed by COBR.
The four implementation committees are:
- Healthcare: chaired by the health secretary to focus on the preparedness of the NHS, notably ensuring capacity in the critical care system for those worst affected, the medical and social package of support for those to whom we will be providing the new shielding regime
- General public sector: chaired by the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to look at preparedness across the rest of the public and critical national infrastructure, excluding the NHS
- Economic and business: chaired by the chancellor, with the business secretary as deputy chair, to consider economic and business impact and response, including supply chain resilience. It will also co-ordinate roundtables with key sectors to be chaired by relevant secretaries of state
- International: chaired by the foreign secretary, to consider the UK's international response to the crisis through the G7, G20 and other mechanisms, including like-minded groups, and the UK five-point plan
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