Matt Hancock: I was warned 820,000 in UK could die from Covid
Ex-health secretary’s diary recalls conversations in government before the UK went into lockdown. …
Mr Hancock wrote: “In his characteristically understated way, sitting at the back peeling a tangerine, Chris Whitty quietly informed everyone that in the reasonable worst-case scenario as many as 820,000 people in the UK may die…. The whole room froze. We are looking at a human catastrophe on a scale not seen here for a century.”
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