Welsh capacity to deal with infectious diseases was ‘inadequate’ before Covid
There were no specialist ‘high consequence infectious disease’ units in Wales, Frank Atherton told the Covid inquiry
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Matt Hancock blames everybody but the government at Covid inquiry
The former health secretary criticised local councils, civil servants and the World Health Organisation over UK failures
Key takeaways as Whitty and Vallance give evidence to Covid inquiry
Pair say UK lacked capacity to ‘scale up’ testing and treatment, and not enough was done about health inequality
UK didn’t invest in public health – Cameron and May’s chief medical officer
Lack of government planning and weakness in health and social care left UK vulnerable to Covid, says Sally Davies