When Williams asked the MoH how the mistake came about, he said he got a “fairly limp excuse”.

Williams said he was “fairly short” with the official he spoke to.

“Surely they fact check things before they give it to Dr Ashley Bloomfield to read on national TV?

“We really want the country to trust the health department and I think in this whole community here, we haven’t got much trust in them anymore.

“How can we trust them when they’re clearly not fact-checking things properly?