England’s chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser during the Covid pandemic have faced the UK’s public inquiry for the first time. Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer (CMO), and Patrick ...

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has disputed claims he rejected expert advice from professor Chris Whitty on Covid tests for people going into care homes at the start of the pandemic. An ...

The UK has “a lot to learn” from the large-scale testing for coronavirus that has taken place in Germany, England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty has said in the first public acknowledgement of ...

MATT Hancock rejected Chris Whitty’s advice to test “all people going into care homes” as Britain was hit by the Covid pandemic. Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal the ex-Health Secretary at first ...

The UK did “not have the ability to scale up” quickly to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic in areas such as testing, England’s chief medical officer has said. Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the UK ...

Prof Sir Chris Whitty told the then health secretary early in April 2020, about a month into the pandemic, that there should be testing for “all going into care homes”. But Mr Hancock did not follow ...