The Covid-19 inquiry is to begin its first day of evidence, with the voices of some of those affected by the pandemic to be heard, in video testimony.
The probe will spend the next six weeks focusing on how prepared the UK was.
Chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett will begin hearing testimonies from bereaved families, trade unions, Government departments and NHS bodies as part of the years-long probe into the pandemic which begins over three years since the first lockdowns were introduced
Part of the probe probe will look at whether Britain leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020,the day the first UK Covid cases were confirmed, played a part in the government’s subsequent response to the virus
The UK recorded one of the world’s highest total number of deaths from Covid
Baroness Hallett has promised to put the 226,000 victims of the pandemic at the heart of the investigation into the government’s response.
The Covid inquiry is to investigate if there was widespread policy to issue Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate notices on older Covid patients in hospitals without their families’ consent.
Controversially it will ask visitors to use lateral flow tests, in addition to providing free masks & using a ‘disinfectant fogging treatment’ every evening to reduce transmission risk.
