Boris Johnson boasted about shaking hands with “everybody” he met at a hospital on the very day his own government’s scientific advice recommended against it.
Documents released on Tuesday by a Whitehall scientific advisory group reveal experts advised against hand shakes on March 3.
That was the same day the Prime Minister left his officials squirming when he told a Downing Street press conference : “I was at a hospital the other night where I think a few there were actually coronavirus patients. “And I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands.”A newly-published document by the Independent Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) stated: “There was agreement that Government
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