Two-thirds of Press Gazette readers rate the UK Government’s Covid-19 media relations operation as either poor or very poor, according to our latest poll.

And the press office of NHS England has come in for particular criticism from some journalists, who say it is tightly controlling communications around the virus.

Some 1,491 readers responded to an online survey which has been live on Press Gazette over the last seven days. Of these, 46% rated the government’s Covid-19 media relations operation as very poor, 20% said it was poor, 12% said OK and 13% said it was very good.