Lives would have been saved with an earlier lockdown – Hancock
Matt Hancock has said that “many, many lives” would have been saved if the nation had gone into the first coronavirus lockdown three weeks before it actually did.
The former health secretary said, with the benefit of hindsight, the nation should have gone into lockdown on March 2 2020, instead of three weeks later on March 23 2020.
But he defended the Government’s decision at the time, saying that there was still “enormous uncertainty” and only 12 cases had been identified in the country by this point.
With hindsight, that’s the moment we should have done it, three weeks earlier, and it would have been would have saved many, many lives
Matt Hancock
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