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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gavin Cordon

Hancock says ministers were told Covid could kill 820,000 people in UK

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Matt Hancock has said he was warned the Covid pandemic could kill hundreds of thousands of people in the UK two months before the Government put the country into lockdown.

The former health secretary said the chief medical officer for England Professor Sir Chris Whitty had informed him in January 2020 that in a “reasonable worst case scenario” as many as 820,000 could die.

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