Bereaved families of care home residents who died with Covid have been left ‘sickened’ and ‘appalled’ at claims Matt Hancock rejected expert testing advice at the start of the pandemic.
, telling an aide the move just ‘muddies the waters’, and introduced mandatory testing only for those coming from hospitals rather than the community.could ‘get in the way’ of the target of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests he was desperate to hit.The former health secretary was considering legal action over the claims in the Daily Telegraph, which his spokesman dismissed as being ‘flat wrong’ because he was told it was ‘not currently possible’ to carry out the tests.
‘He was more focused on meeting his targets at the time rather than the welfare of our most vulnerable members of society.’The organisation called for ‘an immediate and serious police investigation’ to run alongside the public inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic. ‘We have long questioned whether the former health secretary followed scientific advice – it’s one of the many reasons we campaigned so hard for the Covid inquiry.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the official coronavirus inquiry as the ‘right way’ to scrutinise the handling of the pandemic Health minister Helen Whately went further to criticise the ‘very selective information’ that has been published, adding that ‘selective snippets of WhatsApp conversations give a limited and at times misleading insight’.
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