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Nina Lloyd and Robert Dex

Matt Hancock says earlier first Covid lockdown could have stopped 90% of first wave deaths

Matt Hancock said the UK should have gone into lockdown three weeks before it did which would have saved "many, many lives".

The former health secretary told the pandemic inquiry he regarded February 28 2020 as the “moment that the centre of Government, led by the Prime Minister, really started to come into action”.

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