Matt's messages
Matt Hancock's plan to ‘frighten the pants off everyone’ about Covid
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023...
How health secretary hoped to shock public into complying with ever-changing lockdown rules
How Matt Hancock sought to hog the Covid vaccine limelight
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023...
Matt Hancock chose saving face over ending unnecessary ‘pingdemic’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023...
At points, 600,000 pinged per week (who had been in close proximity to a Covid case)
Policy resulted in more than 20 million people being told to self-isolate,
regardless of whether they had symptoms.
At that stage, the self-isolation period was 14 days.
Fortnight-long quarantine applied to both contacts of Covid cases and returning travellers.
A month later isolation period was reduced to 10 days
Scheme not scrapped until Feb 2022
Matt Hancock jokes about Bill Gates
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023...
New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP)
Offered UK expertise to assess new variants around the world
Many conspiracy theories, were said to have been spread on by pro-Kremlin outlets.
Mr Gates did not, in the event, endorse the New Variant Assessment Platform.