Former top civil servant said work 'should have continued' on Covid work
Former top civil servant said work ‘should have continued’ on Covid work, the former Cabinet Secretary, told the ongoing Covid inquiry that he believed preparatory work for the pandemic “should have continued” when
Lord Sedwill also admitted that the very top of government was not aware that Covid transmission was taking place in the UK despite it being reported by scientific groups set up by the Government. He also conceded that by the end of February levels of alarm inside the Government, given official warnings about the imminent crisis, “should have been” higher.
“I think it was also the case at the end of February the number of cases in the UK was – on the data available – still very small.“One can understand how non-experts not familiar with exponential movement might have misunderstood the pace at which the disease was moving.”“He is an optimistic person,” he told the hearing.
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