Mr Hancock told former chancellor George Osborne, then editor of the Evening Standard, 'I WANT TO HIT MY TARGET!' as he pushed for favourable front-page coverage.

Mr Hancock's adviser arranged for a personal test to be couriered for Jacob Rees-Mogg's child at a time of national shortage.

A minister in Mr Hancock's department said restrictions on visitors to care homes were 'inhumane', but residents remained isolated many months on.

Matt Hancock rejected the Chief Medical Officer's call to test all residents going into English care homes for Covid.MailOnline has not seen or independently verified the WhatsApp messages, leaked to The Daily Telegraph by Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who helped ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock write his book Pandemic Diaries.Ī fresh cache of 100,000 text and WhatsApp messages leaked to the Daily Telegraph by the ex-journalist who ghost-wrote Hancock's Pandemic Diaries claimed: The WhatsApp group the messages were posted in included ministers, experts, and officials. Once vaccines started to blunt the impact of the virus, the chances of dying fell to about one in 3,000 - similar to seasonal flu. However, individual risk of death from the virus, for example for the elderly, or for people with health conditions that made them more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus, could be much higher. This would have seen 'up to 10,000' volunteers injected with the virus with their families given '£1 million or whatever' if they died, the former advisor said.īefore Covid jabs became available, the general fatality risk of dying from the virus was estimated to be around 1 per cent. The tranche of more than 100,000 WhatsApps were passed to The Daily Telegraph by the journalist Isabel Oakeshott (right), who was given the material by Matt Hancock (left) when they were working together on his book Pandemic Diariesīut Mr Cummings would famously go on to claim to MPs in May 2021 that the UK's vaccine rollout could have started months earlier in September, if the nation had abandoned traditional safety tests in favour of a 'human challenge' trial.

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