Chief medical officer Chris Whitty has admitted that the government may have overstated the danger of Covid at the start of the pandemic. At least 235,000 Brits are thought to have been killed by ...

Prof Whitty has himself been targeted by anti-vaxxers. In July this year a 24-year-old man was handed an eight-week sentence suspended for two years for assaulting him in St James’s Park following an ...

Chris Whitty, in front, arrives for a Covid-19 media briefing ahead of then prime minister Boris Johnson in February 2021 Ministers were urged to stop discussing “ridiculous” and “dangerous ...

Prof Sir Chris Whitty has said he worries the Government overstated the danger of Covid to the public at the start of the pandemic. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England told the Covid ...

Prof Chris Whitty tells the inquiry that without a lockdown in March 2020 the pressure on NHS hospitals would have been “substantially worse”. He describes the pandemic as the largest medical ...

Chris Whitty says there was a ‘complete absence of plans’ to deal with Covid The Covid inquiry heard that it wasn’t until 25 February 2020 that a plan was commissioned by ministers ...

Reducing sewage pollution in UK waters must be a “public health priority”, said the chief medical officer for England. Backing a report produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering on how ...

England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty says the pandemic was "incredibly harrowing" for NHS staff, as he gives evidence to the Covid inquiry Earlier, the inquiry heard emotional ...