Re your report (‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response, 20 November), shortly after lockdown began, my family lost an aunt and uncle within an hour of each other to Covid in different hospitals in Manchester. Their son was in a third in A&E, also with Covid, but survived. Six months later my father, who was in hospital recuperating from major surgery, was rushed out of the building late at night because of a fear of Covid on the ward. Within two weeks, he died of Covid. On the day he died, my mother tested positive and spent the next two weeks grieving in isolation. I could not visit as I lived 200 miles away and respected the travel ban.
At his funeral, we followed the rules, so a very small number of people could attend. My father was such a part of the local community that people lined the roads around the cemetery, everyone respecting social distancing. I could not hug my mother at the funeral because we were not in the same bubble.
