Health

Close to 20 million people are likely to have died during the last three years, says the WHO.

BBC political editor Chris Mason asked Rishi Sunak if the government was challenging the full release of messages between ministers and officials during the pandemic, to the Covid inquiry, because he was worried about something embarrassing him. The PM said: “Not at all”. He said it was “right that we learn the lessons of Covid”…

BBC political editor Chris Mason asked Rishi Sunak if the government was challenging the full release of messages between ministers and officials during the pandemic, to the Covid inquiry, because he was worried about something embarrassing him. The PM said: “Not at all”. He said it was “right that we learn the lessons of Covid”…

The UK may not have been well prepared “at all”, says the lead lawyer for the Covid inquiry.

Decisions were “finely balanced” and, with hindsight, might have been different, Fiona Scolding KC says.

The nation’s health was declining and the NHS was struggling by 2020, the Covid inquiry hears.

The nation’s health was declining and the NHS was struggling by 2020, the Covid inquiry hears.

David Cameron says “group think” meant government focused on flu pandemics, rather than other diseases.

Dame Sally Davies apologises to bereaved families and says the UK was poorly prepared for the pandemic.

The UK should have prepared to test and isolate more, the ex-health secretary tells the Covid inquiry.