The true scale of the threat from the incoming Covid pandemic was withheld from the Prime Minister and the public in early February 2020, evidence to the inquiry has suggested
Former No 10 special adviser Dominic Cummings arrives to give evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry in west London The true scale of the threat from the incoming Covid pandemic was withheld from the Prime Minister and the public in early February 2020, evidence to the publicchief adviser, told a No10 aides’ WhatsApp group on 6 February 2020 that he had just been told by the then chief scientific adviserHowever, a day earlier, ministers and advisers at a meeting of the government’s emergency...
Mr Cummings insisted that he did pass this onto Mr Johnson – but Mr Keith pointed out that this is not recorded in any emails, WhatsApps or other documents from the time. Mr Keith asked why the message Mr Cummings had sent on 6 February about the virus “sweeping the world” was not communicated to the then prime minister.Mr Cummings said the “general view” in the Department of Health and Cabinet Office in early to mid-February that the threat of the virus was all still “murky and in the future – they weren’t ringing alarm bells at this point, far from it, they go skiing”.
Later in February, after spending time at Chequers for half term, WhatsApps suggest that Mr Johnson had finally got a grip on the seriousness of the crisis.
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