The Latest Breaking News from Hallett

Covid inquiry expected to quiz Simon Case over ‘treasure trove’ of official correspondence

Science advisers demand creation of ‘cohort’ of community health workers to run test and trace

Campaign groups for bereaved in all UK nations said progress of pandemic showed country was not prepared

Sir Frank Atherton told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that planning for potential future health emergencies had all but stopped by 2019.

Inquiry lawyers warn investigation must not be put into ‘procedural straight-jacket’

Government’s readiness for pandemic, health inequalities and testimonies of bereaved families featured at opening of inquiry

The Covid inquiry will next week hear from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron, as well as Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

The second day of the Covid Inquiry public hearings included representation from Sage

Three years on from the start of the pandemic, the Inquiry heard how the virus 'left in its wake death, misery and incalculable loss'

NO ONE in Britain was unaffected by Covid and the restrictions that followed the pandemic. We all have an interest and stake in the outcome of the inquiry that starts today into the handling of the pandemic under the aegis of Baroness Hallett. The scope of the inquiry is enormous:…

Inquiry officials warn that the film of ‘some of those who suffered most during the pandemic’ may be ‘difficult to watch’