00:00I'm very concerned as the Member of Parliament of Faversham and Mid-Kent.
00:04One of the two young people who've tragically died was a Year 13 student at a school in my constituency.
00:11So I'm extremely, very, so sad for her family and of course for the family of the University of Kent
00:17student who's died.
00:18And there is a number of young people who are in hospital as well, so it's incredibly worrying for their
00:22parents.
00:22And we know that many hundreds of University students and Year 13 students may have been contacts, may have been
00:30affected.
00:30It's really, really important that those young people who were at the nightclub in question where this was spreading go
00:37forward for the antibiotics that are being offered.
00:39Well, I think the Government and the UK Health Security Agency need to explain what happened and what was the
00:45delay.
00:45From my point of view, I first started hearing about the outbreak on Sunday evening, and I straightaway on Monday
00:53morning contacted the Health Secretary and UK HSA and said,
00:56can I have a briefing, what's going on?
00:58And also particularly started talking about what's happening for the school children who were affected.
01:03I think the early focus was very much on the University, but actually within the city of Canterbury,
01:08there's real mixing between the students and 18-year-olds who are in their last year of school.
01:14And that needed really quick acting on, and they need to explain whether they did act quickly enough on that
01:20or not.
01:20Though right now what really matters is getting a grip of this outbreak and making sure we don't get any
01:26more young people getting seriously ill.
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