Coronavirus: Patel denies No 10 pursued herd immunity policy
The home secretary rejects a claim by ex-aide Dominic Cummings that ministers wanted the virus to spread. …
On 13 March 2020, Sir Patrick Vallance told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the government’s aim was to “try and reduce the peak – not suppress it completely, also because most people get a mild illness, to build up some degree of herd immunity whilst protecting the most vulnerable”.
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