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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Miriam Burrell,Daniel Keane,Nicholas Cecil and Sami Quadri

Covid Inquiry latest LIVE: UK prepared for 'wrong pandemic', scathing first report says

The previous governments failed their citizens and may have cost lives with “fatal strategic flaws” and other shortcomings to prepare for the Covid pandemic, according to a bombshell report released on Thursday.

London and the rest of the country was left vulnerable after ministers and officials planned for a massive flu outbreak, rather than the deadly virus which hit with such devastating force.

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