EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT: The virus isn't really killing many people - how can we justify all this paralysis?: From Boris Johnson's text message to Rishi's Eat Out to Help Out...Matt Hancock reveals all in the latest instalment of his astonishing pandemic diary

In the first week of April 2020, the whole country was in a state of high anxiety as worldwide cases of Covid passed one million. This instalment of …


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