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Minister defends PM’s stance over Covid care home scandal but is debunked in this video

"The Prime Minister lied (again) to Parliament," claims Peter Stefanovic in a new viral video.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-05-02 09:25
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Former health secretary Matt Hancock has apologised for people’s “pain and anguish” during the coronavirus pandemic, after the High Court ruled the Government’s care home discharge policies were unlawful.

Last week, the High Court found that policies in March and early April 2020 were unlawful because they failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents from non-symptomatic transmission of the virus.

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, patients were rapidly discharged into care homes without testing, despite the risk of asymptomatic transmission, with Government documents showing there was no requirement for this until mid-April.

Irrational

The judges said it was necessary to discharge patients “to preserve the capacity of the NHS”, but found it was “irrational” for the Government not to have advised that asymptomatic patients should isolate from existing residents for 14 days after admission.

Then the PM echoed Hancock’s claims during PMQs, but a video by Peter Stefanovic has debunked these claims.

However, this morning Universities Minister Michelle Donelan again defended this position.

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Niall Paterson : The PM echoed the comments of Matt Hancock that the govt did not know about asymptomatic transmission.. Johnson either misled the house or he was indulging in a barefaced lie?

Michelle Donelan: Hindsight.. absolutely sure we would have done things differently pic.twitter.com/dsrE9LyfOz

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) May 2, 2022

The video, from filmmaker Peter Stefanovic, has slammed the claims, again.

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He tweeted his video response to the Minister and wrote: “Universities Minister just defended Boris Johnson’s shameful PMQS defence to the care homes scandal that he “didn’t know covid could be transmitted asymptomatically” by suggesting the evidence at the time was “patchy” No it wasn’t! The Prime Minister lied (again) to Parliament.”

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Universities Minister just defended Boris Johnson’s shameful PMQS defence to the care homes scandal that he “didn’t know covid could be transmitted asymptomatically” by suggesting the evidence at the time was “patchy”

No it wasn’t! The Prime Minister lied (again) to Parliament pic.twitter.com/oUA0pIABY4

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) May 2, 2022

Related: Watch: Whitty talking about ‘large iceberg of people who have asymptomatic infection’ as Hancock claimed govt didn’t know

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