Yes, really, former minister Lord Bethell, Matt Hancock’s deputy in the Department of Health, has revealed that a mass cull of pet cats in Britain was considered at the start of the pandemic.
A mass cull of pet cats in Britain was considered at the start of the pandemic, a former minister has revealed.
Lord Bethell said it was briefly talked about in 2020 amid fears the animals could be spreading Covid around the nation.‘There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease. ‘In fact, there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain.‘And yet, for a moment there was a bit of evidence around that so that had to be investigated and closed down.’
Lord Bethell was Matt Hancock’s deputy in the Department of Health and Social Care from 2020 to 2021.Cats largely had good lockdowns with their owners staying at home, but it could have been very different His comments follow the revelation of tens of thousands of leaked WhatsApp messages between the former health secretary and senior figures during the pandemic.England’s chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty was said to have insisted there
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