Over 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages allegedly show Matt Hancock rejected the advice by Chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty to test all residents going into English care homes for coronavirus at the start of the pandemic.
rejected advice to test all residents going into English care homes for coronavirus at the start of the pandemic, a leaked trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApps allegedly shows.
Mr Hancock also expressed concerns that expanding care home testing could ‘get in the way’ of the target of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests he was desperate to hit, the investigation said. The spokesman said: ‘Having not been approached in advance by the Telegraph, we have reviewed the messages overnight.‘The Telegraph intentionally excluded reference to a meeting with the testing team from the WhatsApp.
‘This major error by Isabel Oakeshott and the Telegraph shows why the proper place for analysis like this is the Inquiry, not a partial, agenda-driven leak of confidential documents.’– Claims that officials couriered Jacob Rees-Mogg a Covid test for one of his children while there was a shortage. In one message, Mr Hancock said Sir Chris had finished a review and recommended ‘testing of all going into care homes, and segregation whilst awaiting result’.However, the investigation said he later responded to an aide: ‘Tell me if I’m wrong but I would rather leave it out and just commit to test & isolate ALL going into care from hospital. I do not think the community commitment adds anything and it muddies the waters.
‘Those who argue there shouldn’t have been a lockdown ignore the fact that half-a-million people would have died had we not locked down.
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