BORIS Johnson asked UK govt scientists whether people could kill COVID-19 by using a "special hair dryer" up their nose, his former aide has claimed.
Dominic Cummings said the former prime minister shared a video of a man using such a device with his top advisers Sir Patrick Vallance and Sir Chris Whitty, BBC has reported.
He then asked the medical experts what they thought about the clip.
Johnson has been approached for a comment by the BBC.
The eye-catching claim was among several made by Cummings in his witness statement to the inquiry into the govt's pandemic response.
In his statement, Cummings explained that the former prime minister "did not want us to 'antagonise' the media by calling out false stories".
Staff, he wrote in his statement, were even unsure whether "he was not himself the source of false stories".
"A low point was when he circulated a video of a guy blowing a special hair dryer up his nose 'to kill Covid'," Cumming's statement read.
He said Johnson shared the Youtube clip - since deleted - in a WhatsApp group with Sir Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer (CMO), and Sir Vallance, then the govt's Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).
Johnson then "asked the CSA and CMO what they thought".
The statement does not detail what response - if any - was given by the advisors.
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