Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has admitted there was an assumption that “we knew best” and could not learn from Asian countries before Covid struck.
The former Health Secretary told the Covid-19 Inquiry that Britain wrongly prepared for flu and mistakenly assumed herd immunity was inevitable during pandemic planning.
Mr Hunt admitted that he was a part of not focusing on the possibility of the need for mass testing, quarantine and widespread use of PPE - unlike Asian countries which had been hit by the Mers virus.
