Victims of Britain’s Tainted Blood Scandal to Receive Compensation

Blood is collected from a donor into a bag during a blood drive on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 20, 2017. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Thousands of Britons are to get interim compensation payments of £100,000 after the government accepted the findings of an initial inquiry into the tainted blood transfusion scandal.

Campaigners gave a cautious welcome to the news.