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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ella Pickover

Pandemic plan ‘didn’t envisage mass test and trace would be necessary’ – Selbie

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Pandemic preparation plans “never envisaged” that mass contact tracing and mass testing would be needed, the former head of Public Health England (PHE) said.

Duncan Selbie told the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry that he never discussed “the scale of pandemic that we faced” before Covid hit.

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