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NHS virtually back to normal after cyber attack, says home secretary

Xinhua, May 13, 2017 Adjust font size:

All but six of the 48 NHS trusts in Britain hit by Friday's cyber attack, are now back to normal, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Saturday night.

Commenting after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency meeting in London, Rudd said there was always more that could be done to protect against computer viruses.

Rudd also said the government had the right plans to limit the impact of the attack. She said 97 percent of NHS trusts were now working as normal, with no evidence patient data was affected in the attack.

Among the handful of organisations still affected Saturday was Britain's biggest NHS trust which operates five hospitals in London.

The attack on the health service in England and Scotland, which hit thousands of computers in hospitals, clinics, family doctor surgeries and other health providers, was said to be unprecedented. Endit