Disclosure of the big scandal related to the former British health minister.
The British media reported a big scandal related to the former British health minister.
Based on this, some chats show how Matt Hancock, the British health minister at the beginning of the Corona epidemic, ignored the opinions of experts and held a special trial period in nursing homes. In this way, more than 40,000 people died there during the first wave of Corona.
There are serious claims the UK’s Telegraph is making a comprehensive investigative report titled ‘The Locked Files’ based on more than 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages against Matt Hancock, the UK’s former health secretary.
It is said that at the beginning of the Corona epidemic in the spring of 2020, this 44-year-old man repeatedly rejected the advice of his staff and external consultants regarding the strategy of testing in nursing homes and completed his course in these centers. As such, these care homes eventually became the UK’s largest outbreak of Covid, with more than 40,000 deaths.
But this is not the only accusation of the former British minister: Hancock is said to have announced at the time that more than 100,000 Covid tests per day would be possible by the end of April 2020 with the help of tricks and tricks. This number was ultimately never achieved, contrary to what Hancock proudly announced at a press conference at the time.
After the UK health system struggled with a shortage of PCR tests at the start of the pandemic, Hancock announced in a televised speech on 2 April 2020 a target to enable 100,000 daily tests for the UK population by the end of the month. However, in the following days, the number of cases of the disease increased sharply across the country, and the situation in hospitals and nursing homes became particularly critical.
In a letter to Hancock on April 8, then (and now) British Social Affairs Minister Helen Whatley wrote: “Examples from other countries show that we need to test all nursing and care home residents and their staff, whether they have symptoms or not.” to be or not Hancock replied: “I’m in favor of it too, and the capacity to implement it is increasing rapidly.
On 14 April 2020, the day the testing strategy was to be set internally, Chris Whitty, England’s chief health officer, presented the same plan to Hancock. At that time, the Minister of Health replied: Obviously, this is a positive action and we should include it in the document.
But that evening, Hancock made another decision, his strategy to include only mandatory tests for patients who had recently moved from hospitals to nursing homes. Alan Nixon, his foreign adviser, was surprised by the change of direction in a WhatsApp message. “Well,” replied Hancock. Tell me if I’m wrong, but I’d rather […] just require everyone who comes out of the hospital to be tested. I believe there is no value in testing on a larger scale and it only creates confusion. Prepare this as an answer in case someone asks.
Around four days later, Social Affairs Minister Whatley wrote to Hancock, stressing that March 2020 had seen 10,000 more deaths than usual in care homes. At 6:05 p.m., he wrote: “I’d still like to talk to you about it if you have time.” However, the Minister of Health insisted on his approach and skipped the issue.
In response, Hancock explains his objection: “That’s fine, as long as it doesn’t prevent me from reaching the capacity I want to test the population.” He said: “By conducting mandatory tests for all residents and staff of nursing homes, his stated goal of 100,000 tests per day is at risk.”
By the time Hancock introduced regular testing for all residents and staff in care homes on 17 August 2020, care homes had already become the UK’s number one hotspot for coronavirus. More than 40% of UK nursing homes reported outbreaks of the virus, and between April 14 and August 13 alone, almost 18,000 people across the country died from the virus.
On May 1, 2020, Hancock proudly announced in another televised speech that he had reached his goal of 100,000 PCR tests per day. “This unprecedented expansion of the UK’s testing capacity is an incredible achievement,” Hancock said proudly.
Now the news shows that Hancock used some tricks and tricks because of the panic. He and his staff had long known that bottlenecks existed because of the small number of lab staff who could evaluate PCR tests. The laboratories only had a capacity of 20,000 evaluations per day.
Even before these revelations, Hancock had made other mistakes. She resigned in June 2021 after an affair between her and a high-ranking employee became public. Leaked photos document a meeting between the two, which also breached the UK’s strict lockdown at the time.
