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Hedge fund manager Andurand decries UK response to Covid-19: ‘It’s mass murder’

Comments come a day after Boris Johnson described the coronavirus as the 'worst public-health crisis for a generation'

Pierre Andurand
Pierre Andurand Photo: Getty Images

Prominent hedge fund manager Pierre Andurand has dismissed the UK government’s efforts to contain the coronavirus in the bluntest of terms, labelling Westminster’s response to the mounting crisis akin to “mass murder”.

Andurand, the French head of UK-based Andurand Capital Management, made the comment in a Twitter discussion on the impact of the Covid-19 respiratory illness on 13 March.

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