Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock disputes claim he rejected care home Covid advice
When the care plan was published on 15 April, it said the government would "institute a policy of testing all residents prior to admission to care homes", but that that would "begin with all those being discharged from hospital".
Responding to an urgent question from Labour in the Commons, she said "selective snippets of WhatsApp conversations give a limited and at times misleading insight". "Later that day he convened an operational meeting on delivering testing for care homes where he was advised it was not currently possible to test everyone entering care homes, which he also accepted," he said.
By mid-April only around 20,000 tests a day were being done. It meant testing had to be strictly rationed - it was being used to test people with symptoms and only then if they were in vulnerable settings such as hospitals or care homes or they were key workers. A member of the public in the community who had symptoms could not access tests.
It said that the right place to analyse what happened during the pandemic was the public inquiry, which is now under way and is due to begin hearing evidence in June.
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