People can get lung infections, such as legionnaires’ disease or Pontiac fever, if they breathe in small droplets of water in the air that contain the bacteria.
Carralyn Parkes, the mayor of Portland said:
Portland town council has to do legionnaires’ disease checks on public lavatories and we do that competently. And yet the Home Office, which is supposed to be helping to run the country, has failed to complete basic checks.
We were told all these checks had been done.
I am shocked and horrified by the incompetence of this government.
They’re not incompetent, Carralyn. They simply don’t care:
The Home Office first learned about the early traces on Wednesday, resulting in further tests on Thursday. The Home Office still sent another six people on to the barge on Thursday.
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