Government Could Have Been ‘More Liberal’ on Outdoor Time During Covid – Whitty

Covid lockdown: Chris Whitty wanted less restriction on the amount of time people could spend outside

There was no logic in restricting the amount of time people were allowed to spend outdoors during Covid because it was safer than being indoors, according to the country’s leading expert.

Government Could Have Been ‘More Liberal’ on Outdoor Time During Covid – Whitty

There should have been a “more liberal” approach to the amount of time people were allowed to spend outside during the Covid-19 pandemic, the nation’s top medic has said. Just weeks into lockdown, senior scientists advising government discussed evidence that being outdoors was safer than being indoors, the pandemic probe heard. Speaking about the amount of time people could spend outdoors, England’s chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whit…

Government could have been ‘more liberal’ on outdoor time during Covid – Whitty

Professor Sir Chris Whitty was being asked about the impact of the pandemic on children and young people.

Watch Professor Sir Chris Whitty give evidence at COVID-19 Inquiry

The national inquiry into the UK's response to the coronavirus pandemic is looking at the impact on young people

Sir Chris Whitty makes shocking Covid admission about UK's kids

'I think probably is something we should have looked at, and for children in particular, I think that's very important.'

Chris Whitty says people were forced indoors too much during Covid pandemic - The Mirror

Covid-19 Inquiry hears Sir Chris Whitty say he ‘couldn’t see the logic’ of making people stay home so much as he told of harms to isolated children