Former UK prime minister giving evidence to inquiry on country’s handling of crisis
Former prime minister David Cameron leaving after giving evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry at Dorland House in London. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA WireFormer UK prime minister David Cameron told an inquiry on Monday that Britain was prepared for a flu-type pandemic but not enough work was done in advance to confront an asymptomatic disease similar to Covid-19.
Last week the counsel to the inquiry Hugo Keith said that Britain was taken by surprise by many aspects of the pandemic and had not considered policies such as lockdown and shielding in advance. “Much more time was spent on pandemic flu and the dangers of pandemic flu rather than on potential pandemics of other, more respiratory diseases like Covid turned out to be,” Mr Cameron, who was prime minister from 2010-2016, told the inquiry.Mr Cameron said that while the government did consider other diseases like MERS and SARS, he questioned whether there had been adequate follow-up on that work and the possibility of asymptomatic transmission of respiratory diseases.
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