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Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

David Cameron tells Covid inquiry it was a ‘mistake’ not to look at different types of pandemics

It was a "mistake" for the previous Tory governments to focus too heavily on preparations for combating flu rather than other types of pandemic, David Cameron told the Covid inquiry on Monday.

The former Conservative Prime Minister said it was “very hard” to determine why there was so little focus on other disease epidemics other than influenza when he led the country between 2010 and 2016.

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