Boris Johnson 'asked scientists if special hairdryer could kill covid' — Cummings

Former prime minister Boris Johnson was ‘extremely distracted’, Dominic Cummings wrote (Aaron Chown/PA)

Boris Johnson asked top scientists Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance if Covid could be destroyed by blowing a “special hair dryer” up noses, Dominic Cummings has claimed.

In a “low point” while prime minister, he allegedly sent a video of a man using such a purported device to the men serving as England’s chief scientific adviser and chief medical officer and asked what they thought.