Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has disputed claims he rejected expert advice from professor Chris Whitty on Covid tests for people going into care homes at the start of the pandemic. An ...

England's chief medical officer has clashed with former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over coronavirus testing, insisting officials did their best with the "tools at their disposal". In heated ...

Following a 4 January Covid-19 press conference, comments made by Professor Sir Chris Whitty have been highlighted in The Guardian and posts on Twitter as a potential source of confusion over whether ...

In heated exchanges, the pair clashed over the decision to abandon mass testing on March 12 - a widely criticised move which has been identified as one of the key reasons for Britain’s high ...

MATT Hancock rejected Chris Whitty’s advice to test “all people going into care homes” as Britain was hit by the Covid pandemic. Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal the ex-Health Secretary at first ...

The UK has “a lot to learn” from the large-scale testing for coronavirus that has taken place in Germany, England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty has said in the first public acknowledgement of ...

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Britain should have acted more quickly and followed the example of Germany to introduce mass coronavirus testing, England's Chief Medical Officer admitted today. Professor Chris Whitty spoke as ...

Many of the problems the UK faced early on in the coronavirus pandemic were due to a failure to speed up testing, England's chief medical officer has said. Professor Chris Whitty acknowledged "more ...

BRITAIN should have moved much faster to mass test the population for coronavirus in a bid to get on top of the outbreak, the Chief Medical Officer admitted tonight. After weeks of refusing to admit ...

16:18, Fri, Mar 27, 2020 Updated: 19:11, Fri, Mar 27, 2020 The news comes on the same day that Prime minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock tested positive for the disease. Professor ...