Senior counter-terror official put in charge of new UK biosecurity centre
by Dan Sabbagh and Ian Sample from on (#53C1P)
Tom Hurd, who was at Eton and Oxford with PM, parachuted in to launch new coronavirus unit
A senior Home Office counter-terrorism official who was at Eton and Oxford with Boris Johnson has been parachuted in to take temporary charge of the newly established joint biosecurity centre, responsible for coronavirus threat levels.
Tom Hurd has switched jobs on an acting basis to get the new centre up and running within days", officials said, though he remains a candidate to take over as the next director general of MI6 later this year.
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