Matt’s messages

Matt Hancock's plan to ‘frighten the pants off everyone’ about Covid https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/04/project-fear-covid-lockdown-files-matt-hancock-whatsapp/ How health secretary hoped to shock public into complying with ever-changing lockdown rules How Matt Hancock sought to hog the Covid vaccine limelight https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/matt-hancock-triumph-covid-vaccine-lockdown-files-whatsapp/ Matt Hancock chose saving face over ending unnecessary ‘pingdemic’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/chris-whitty-matt-hancock-covid-isolation-pingdemic-whatsapp/ At points, 600,000 pinged per week (who had been in close proximity to a Covid case) Policy resulted in more than 20 million people being told to self-isolate, regardless of whether they had symptoms. At that stage, the self-isolation period was 14 days. Fortnight-long quarantine applied to both contacts of Covid cases and returning travellers. A month later isolation period was reduced to 10 days Scheme not scrapped until Feb 2022 Matt Hancock jokes about Bill Gates https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/05/matt-hancock-joke-bill-gates-covid-vaccine-conspiracy-theory/ New Variant Assessment Platform (NVAP) Offered UK expertise to assess new variants around the world Many conspiracy theories, were said to have been spread on by pro-Kremlin outlets. Mr Gates did not, in the event, endorse the New Variant Assessment Platform.