Health
Government medical chief admits ‘we were not fully prepared’ for Covid pandemic – Mirror Online
Jenny Harries made the comments a year after she claimed Britain had been ’an international exemplar in preparedness’
One of the government’s top medical chiefs has admitted “we were not fully prepared” for the Covid pandemic.
Jenny Harries, England’s deputy chief medical officer and chief executive of the new UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said there was “learning” to be had on testing, masks and asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus.
It is a far cry from her claim a year ago that Britain had been “an international exemplar in preparedness”. She said in April 2020: “The fact that there is a pandemic stockpile…
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