Eight shock findings over how UK failed to properly deal with Covid pandemic

The Daily Mirror says serious errors and delays at the hands of the Government and even scientific advisers cost lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a damning report from MPs.

The study, from the cross-party Science and Technology Committee and the Health and Social Care Committee, said the UK’s preparation for a pandemic was far too focused on flu, while ministers waited too long to push through lockdown measures in early 2020.

In a wide-ranging report, MPs said the UK’s pandemic planning was too “narrowly and inflexibly based on a flu model” that failed to learn the lessons from Sars, Mers and Ebola.

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/8-shock-findings-over-how-25190443