The UK’s pandemic planning was beset by “fatal strategic flaws” and citizens everywhere were failed, a damning first report from the UK Covid-19 public inquiry has found, putting pressure on the prime minister to overhaul the national civil emergencies system.
Lady Hallett, chair of the statutory inquiry into the pandemic that claimed more than 230,000 lives, pinpointed “serious errors on the part of the state” in the way it prepared for the risk of a pandemic. “Never again can a disease be allowed to lead to so many deaths and so much suffering,” she said.
