Former top civil servant said work 'should have continued' on Covid work
Former top civil servant said work ‘should have continued’ on Covid work, the former Cabinet Secretary, told the ongoing Covid inquiry that he believed preparatory work for the pandemic “should have continued” when
Asked about the drop-off in work on pandemic preparation, he said: “I would have expected it to continue, yes.” “I think it was also the case at the end of February the number of cases in the UK was – on the data available – still very small.“One can understand how non-experts not familiar with exponential movement might have misunderstood the pace at which the disease was moving.”“He is an optimistic person,” he told the hearing.
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