Ex-health secretary says pandemic planning focused too much on burying dead rather than stopping disaster.
Mr Hancock was repeatedly asked about the recommendations from Exercise Cygnus, a three-day test run in October 2016 to find out how prepared the UK was for a influenza pandemic.
The Inquiry has seen evidence that only eight of the 22 recommendations made after that exercise had been fully addressed by the time Covid hit with work on the other 14, including to prepare the social care sector, still ongoing. But he said that he was "not convinced" that, even if all those recommendations had been addressed, the country would have been in a better place to deal with Covid.
He said: "The doctrinal floor was the biggest by a long way because if we'd had a flu pandemic, we still would have had the problem of no plan in place for lockdown, no prep for how to do one, no work on what, how best to lock down with the least damage.
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