The UK should have prepared to test and isolate more, the ex-health secretary tells the Covid inquiry.
In his testimony on Wednesday, Mr Hunt said the UK was well prepared for pandemic flu, but "we hadn't given nearly enough thought to other types of pandemics that could emerge" during planning exercises during his tenure.
During the early weeks of the inquiry, one key topic is beginning to dominate: why did the UK not consider in its planning the idea of trying to stop a pandemic virus from taking hold? "And then it was inevitable you were going to have to use a lockdown," he added. "Had we got on the case much earlier with that approach, we might have avoided that."
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