Bibby Stockholm: No one harmed over discovery of Legionella on barge - health secretary

📆 8/14/2023 10:06 AM
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Steve Barclay insists ministers took 'instant action' to move asylum seekers off the Bibby Stockholm barge.

Dorset Council said it informed Home Office contractors about preliminary test results last Monday.

A senior Home Office source told the BBC that the department did not receive a formal notification of the presence of Legionella until Wednesday evening. Prof Dame Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the agency, said that legionella bacteria detected in routine tests would not "necessarily indicate there is a systemic problem".

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