DECLASSIFIED UK: Coronavirus fake news: How the British government misled the public for weeks

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DECLASSIFIED UK: Coronavirus fake news: How the British government misled the public for weeks By Phil Miller

.” It was so confident the UK had sufficient capacity it said it was “testing samples from countries that do not have assured testing capabilities”.

The next day, international development minister Alok Sharma pledged £5 million of British aid to help the World Health Organisation “prevent the spread of the virus in developing countries” and deploy experts to the WHO’s regional office for Africa in the Republic of Congo. This framing of the coronavirus crisis as foreign policy or international aid problem, which was presumed to impact other parts of the world worse than the UK, continued well into mid-February.: “The UK is a world leader in tackling global health issues … Thanks in part to the centre of excellence that is the NHS, British doctors have been at the centre of the response to every major disease outbreak around the world in recent decades and coronavirus is no different.

Dominic Raab digs a hole in Sydney to promote British pharma company AstraZeneca during Brexit trade talks as coronavirus spread on 7 February. , the government continued to put out mixed messages. On the one hand, it continued to assess the risk as “

 

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