Hunt: We Thought We Knew Best On Pandemic

He admits failures on testing, PPE & quarantine

- MARTIN BAGOT

JEREMY Hunt has admitted his part in the failure to prepare Britain for the pandemic while he was Health Secretary.

He told the Covid-19 Inquiry there had been an assumption "we knew best" and a refusal to learn from countries which had been hit by Mers, another coronavirus.

His pandemic planning failed to focus on the need for mass testing, quarantine and widespread use of PPE as the UK wrongly prepared for a flu pandemic, assuming the population would gain herd immunity.