The former health secretary expressed concern about relaxing rules for Covid contacts in late 2020.
Matt Hancock was concerned that relaxing Covid isolation rules would imply ministers had been "getting it wrong", leaked messages suggest.
The BBC has not been able to independently verify the messages, between Mr Hancock and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty.by journalist Isabel Oakeshott. Prof Whitty is shown telling Mr Hancock that the UK's chief medical officers, as well as Sage, the government's group of scientific advisers, were "in favour" of a pilot "with presumption in favour of testing for 5 days in lieu of isolation ".
In the exchange published by the Telegraph, Mr Hancock replies that the idea "sounds like a massive loosening".In a reply, Mr Hancock says he is "amazed" - adding that "this sounds very risky and we can't go backwards". He asks whether allowing people to test for 10 days would be "a safer starting point".Prof Whitty replies that "we could push to 7 [days]" but "the benefits really flatten off after 5".
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