The government ignored early warnings from two Nobel Prize-winning scientists, saying all health care workers should regularly test the coronavirus during the pandemic.

The proposal was a named letter sent in April 2020 by Paul Nurse, CEO of the Francis Crick Institute and Sir Peter Ratcliffe, Director of Research, to Matt Hancock, then Minister of Health.

Unless there are symptoms of the disease, NHS and nursing home staff do not provide co-testing until November 2020 in England.

Matt Hancock will participate in the survey next week, as well as other health ministers from four UK countries.

Sir Paul, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2001, said he said he did not receive a response to his concerns until July 2020, which was "disturbing".

"What I want to say is to make the Secretary of State ignore letters from a Nobel Prize winner or two Nobel Prize winners in medicine, which is a little surprising," he told the investigation.

“Rather than admitting that they can’t do it because it would indicate a mistake in their overall strategy, keep silent.”

He added that deciding not to routinely test NHS and nursing home staff could lead to an increase in infections and deaths in the early stages of the pandemic.

In the first six months of Covid, there was a crazy motivation to increase testing for the disease. Matt Hancock set a goal of 100,000 tests per day in England at the end of April 2020.

By this time, scientists around the world have already known that no symptoms have occurred, such as coughing or fever.

Nurse Paul, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and their colleague Dr. Sam Barrell wrote to Mr. Hancock on April 14, 2020, saying they had a “serious concern” about the “asymptomatic transmission” between medical staff and patients.

"We recommend that all NHS trusts and healthcare providers should be required to establish a surveillance system to regularly perform immediate effective patients for all healthcare workers and patients," the letter said.

The scientists received a response on July 6, 2020, signed by a junior official from the Ministry of Health.

Instead of directly addressing the topic of healthcare workers, the response pointed out that testing is a “critical part” of government strategy and that capabilities are “expanding rapidly.”

The Frances Crick Institute, headquartered in north London, is one of the largest biomedical research centres in the world.

As Covid hit, a team of 300 volunteers began using the organization’s lab space and equipment to handle Covid testing in dozens of local hospitals, GP surgery and nursing homes.

According to the nurse professor, it has the ability to do 4,000 tests a day and increase it to 10,000 with more funding.

In March 2020, he wrote to the government to help with testing work nationwide.

Instead, ministers decided to build a huge network of private beacon labs.

Nursing professors received larger locations in the evidence, but said “under-attention” was conducted on universities and other publicly funded institutions that could quickly handle testing of healthcare workers, especially in the early stages of the pandemic.

The sixth part of the COVID query, focusing on the performance of testing, trace and isolation systems throughout the UK, continued until the end of May.