A stark warning has been issued that unless lessons are learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, the more than 17,000 people who lost their lives could have died in vain.
That message forms part of a damning report from the Covid 19 Inquiry. It lays bare the failures of planning at the heart of the UK and Scottish Governments approach to the pandemic and found the UK “prepared for the wrong pandemic” back in 2020.
Emergency planning generally failed to account for how vulnerable people would be looked after.
There were “fatal strategic flaws” in the assessment of the risks facing the UK.
And planning for a “no deal Brexit” drew resources away from planning for a pandemic.
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