The son of a doctor who died of coronavirus after warning Boris Johnson about a lack of personal protective equipment has confronted the health secretary, Matt Hancock, asking if he regrets not taking his father’s concerns seriously enough.
Speaking on LBC, Intisar Chowdhury, the 18-year-old son of Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, also criticised the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis. The health secretary told him he was ‘really sorry’ about his father’s death and thought it was brave of him to speak out in public
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