COVID-19 Updates
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Cabinet Office refuses to release Boris Johnson’s notebooks over security concerns
Covid inquiry will be given redacted notes and WhatsApp messages from former PM’s time in office A collection of 25 notebooks from Boris Johnson’s time in office is being withheld…
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Forget culture wars: the Covid inquiry is a stark reminder of what government is really about | Zoe Williams
Ministers may prefer cheap rhetoric to the reality of hard decisions – but these hearings show the cost of the choices they make Was the Johnson government unprepared for Covid…
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Brexit distracted UK ministers from Covid planning, official tells inquiry
Government focused on no-deal preparation and did not foresee need for PPE, contact tracing or possible lockdowns UK politics live – latest updates The UK was unprepared for the Covid…
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UK Covid inquiry: what we learned from the first week of the hearings
Government’s readiness for pandemic, health inequalities and testimonies of bereaved families featured at opening of inquiry The long-awaited independent inquiry into the UK government’s handling of Covid finally began hearing…
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Experience: I knew nothing of the pandemic until my submarine surfaced
We were suddenly bombarded with information that made no sense to us In 2019, I started at the École Polytechnique, a prestigious French engineering school where students undergo military training…
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China withholds key indicator of Covid death toll as it fails to release cremation data
China has been accused of masking the true impact of the pandemic and underreporting the number of fatalities China has dropped the number of cremations held last winter from a…
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Ben Jennings on Boris Johnson’s Covid legacy – cartoon
Discover and buy more of Ben’s cartoons here Continue reading… Read the original article at The Guardian
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What do you know, Boris Johnson lied. But the carnival of crazy has just begun | Zoe Williams
His allies have threatened colleagues and the former PM’s statement was venomous. This doesn’t feel over … There were surprises afoot on Wednesday – or privileges-committee-publication-day eve as we should…
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UK post-Covid plan will not keep public safe, expert tells inquiry
David Alexander of UCL says new framework merely ‘an attempt to tinker with the system’ Experts in national disaster preparedness have warned that the UK’s post-pandemic resilience plan requires “wholesale,…