Women and children experienced an “intensification” of domestic abuse during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. The Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry was told measures such as lockdown created a situation that
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Boris Johnson has blamed “bed blocking” in the NHS for locking down the country as Covid took hold, the public inquiry has heard. In a section of his witness statement
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Matt Hancock wanted to decide “who should live and who should die” if hospitals became overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, the former NHS England boss has claimed. Lord Simon Stevens (pictured),
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People with long Covid were “not believed” and had “no place to go” for support, an umbrella body for health and social care has told an inquiry. Sara Redmond, chief
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A senior Tory MSP has spoken about how his mother died alone and “without family contact” in a care home during the Covid pandemic. Murdo Fraser (pictured) questioned if strict
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Coronavirus rules were broken on a daily basis at the heart of government, with hundreds of civil servants and potentially ministers at risk of being fined, a former top official
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Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she has “nothing to hide” under questioning about her WhatsApps, as 14,000 messages are set to be disclosed to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
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The Eat Out to Help Out scheme and the policy of sending people back to work during the pandemic “made absolutely no sense whatsoever”, Boris Johnson’s former director of communications
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Boris Johnson suggested he believed the coronavirus pandemic was “nature’s way of dealing with old people” as he resisted lockdown measures, Sir Patrick Vallance argued. The Government’s chief scientific adviser
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More than 500 care homes in England are taking part in a pilot programme to monitor and help reduce infection spread, aiming to build on research done in the pandemic
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