The Government has admitted that Covid restrictions caused "profound loneliness, pain and anguish” to many Brits - and said it didn't get everything right.
On the second day of evidence, the Inquiry heard its first statements from the key Government departments involved in the probe - the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Cabinet Office.
DHSC legal representative Fiona Scolding said different decisions may have been made with hindsight, as the probe continued its examination of the years leading up the pandemic.
