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Matt Hancock Rejected Advice on Care Home Testing, Leaked Messages Suggest

Matt Hancock at a Covid-19 mass vaccination center in Epsom, UK, in 2021. 

Matt Hancock at a Covid-19 mass vaccination center in Epsom, UK, in 2021. 

Photographer: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Bloomberg

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THE PRESS ASSOCIATION (Sam Blewett, PA Deputy Political Editor)

Matt Hancock rejected advice to give coronavirus tests to all residents going into English care homes, according to a leaked trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages.

An investigation by the Telegraph said chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the then health secretary in April 2020 there should be testing for "all going into care homes".