Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland had ‘no set plan’ to deal with Covid-style pandemic

Nicola Sturgeon arriving at the Covid-19 inquiry hearing in London. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

There was “no set plan” in Scotland for dealing with a pandemic of the nature of Covid-19, Nicola Sturgeon has told the UK Covid inquiry.

The former first minister said she accepted that the 2011 four nations pandemic plan – which focused on influenza – was inadequate, but that did not mean no part of it was useful. “There is no plan that will ever completely replicate what happens in reality when a pandemic unfortunately confronts us.”