Scandal in the United Kingdom: Dominic Cummings, former adviser to Boris Johnson, assured that the government had lied about the management of the pandemic

Dominic cummings, a former adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked on Wednesday sorry for the “mistakes” made by the government and by itself after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and assured that the executive has “failed” in its management.

“When citizens needed us most, government failed. I would like to tell all the families of those who have passed away needlessly how sorry I am for the mistakes made and for my own mistakes. “, claimed who was Johnson’s “right-hand man”.

“When the citizens needed us most, the government failed”

Cummings, who appears from 8:30 a.m. GMT before two parliamentary committees investigating the handling of the health crisis following his outbreak in March 2020, said that MPs, ministers, civil servants and councilors “have failed disastrously to meet the standards that citizens have a right to expect” of them.

The parliamentarian Greg clark asked Cummings to provide examples showing UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock lied about handling the pandemic. The former adviser assured that “there are many examples” that prove this and listed a few:

“During the (boreal) summer, he said that everyone who needed treatment was getting the treatment they needed. He knew it was a lie because he had been informed by the chief science adviser and the medical director himself of the first peak., and we were told explicitly that people weren’t getting the treatment they deserved, a lot of people were left for dead in horrific circumstances, ”Cummings said.

“Hancock said everyone who needed treatment was getting what they needed. He knew it was a lie. “

Furthermore, he added that just before he and the Prime Minister caught the coronavirus, Hancock had told them in the office room that all was well with the personal protective equipment. Cummings said that later Hancock blamed Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England. The former adviser revealed that after that meeting the cabinet secretary said he lost faith in Hancock’s honesty.

Cummings stated that The Government’s initial strategy to deal with the pandemic was based on achieving “group immunity”, which was then considered an “inevitable” option., something the executive strongly denies.

“The logic of the official plan was that the disease was going to spread”

“It’s not that no one thought it was a good thing and that we actively wanted it, it was considered totally inevitable and the only question asked was when, if group immunity is reached in September (2020) or January (2021) after the second outbreak. It was the assumption until March 13, ”he recalls.

Cummings insisted that “that was the plan” and admitted he felt “Completely perplexed that the government is trying to deny it because it was the official plan”.

He added that the government has made several “Bad assumptions in pandemic planning” based on this approach (this group immunity was inevitable) in early 2020.

“Essentially, the logic of the MoH official plan was that the disease was going to spread, vaccines were not going to be relevant in any way during the reporting period, and they told us that it was certain that there would be no vaccines available in 2020, which also turned out to be a total error, ”he said.

On the other hand, Cummings revealed that on the day he wanted to introduce coronavirus quarantine to the country, Downing Street was distracted because Boris Johnson’s partner Carrie Symonds was “completely mad” about a story in Time about her dog Dilyn. “It sounds so surreal that it couldn’t be true”, he stated.

(With information from EFE)

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