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Coronavirus: Nike

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 49656, tabled on 20 May 2020

Question

Ian Murray
Labour
Edinburgh South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he was made aware of the suspected outbreak of covid-19 at a the Nike international conference in Edinburgh on 26 and 27 February 2020 by (a) Public Health England, (b) Public Health Scotland and (c) the Scottish Government; and if he will make a statement.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Jo Churchill
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds
Commons

Answered on

3 August 2020

The Nike international conference held in Edinburgh on 26 and 27 February took place in accordance with scientific advice available at the time.

It was agreed by the four Chief Medical Officers ahead of the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 that each administration would announce their own cases and take their own decisions about what is appropriate to release, so this was a matter for the Scottish Government.

Public Health England (PHE) was alerted to a case associated with the Nike conference in Edinburgh on 2 March 2020.

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