The COVID inquiry highlights a truly damning statistic

All four UK governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat posed by COVID-19 or the urgency of the response the pandemic required, a report published on Thursday claimed.

Tom Clarke

Science and technology editor @t0mclark3

Friday 21 November 2025 21:04, UK

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