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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Blewett

UK may ‘not have been well prepared at all’ for pandemic, Covid Inquiry told - OLD

PA Wire

Britain “may not have been very well prepared at all” for Covid-19, the official inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic has heard.

Hugo Keith KC, lead counsel for the inquiry, said in his opening statement on Tuesday that the nation was “taken by surprise” by “significant aspects” of the disease that has been recorded on 226,977 death certificates.

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