Covid-19: PM backs Matt Hancock over Dominic Cummings' care home claims

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 Boris Johnson has expressed "full confidence" in Health Secretary Matt Hancock over claims he lied about protecting care homes from Covid.

Dominic Cummings says Mr Hancock misled the PM in March 2020 by promising all residents discharged from hospital would be tested.

The PM's former aide says this led to thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Mr Hancock has denied lying but said he had been clear that it would take time to build testing capacity.

"My recollection of events is that I committed to delivering that testing for people going from hospital into care homes when we could do it," he told a Downing Street press conference on Thursday.

"I then went away and built the testing capacity… and then delivered on the commitment that I made."



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