The former health secretary says the warning was largely met with indifference at a cabinet meeting, and he suggested that the then-PM, Boris Johnson, had been reluctant to engage on the issue.
said the chief medical officer for England, Professor Sir Chris Whitty, informed him in January 2020 that, in a"reasonable worst case scenario", as many as 820,000 could die.
The details are revealed in Mr Hancock's Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story Of Britain's Battle Against Covid, serialised in the Daily Mail and The Mail+. "The whole room froze. We are looking at a human catastrophe on a scale not seen here for a century."However, when he shared the warning with a Brexit Day meeting of the Cabinet on 31 January, he said it was met largely with indifference.
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