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The first week of the long-awaited inquiry into the handling of the pandemic has passed. Heres what we learned.

We were not prepared; we are not prepared - that is what expert witnesses and core participants of the UK's COVID-19 Inquiry have claimed in its f...

Government’s readiness for pandemic, health inequalities and testimonies of bereaved families featured at opening of inquiry

Dr Charlotte Hammer and Professor Jimmy Whitworth, told the probe's second public hearing this afternoon that the UK was instead 'thought to be fairly well prepared'.

The Covid inquiry will next week hear from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron, as well as Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

Professor David Alexander, (pictured) an expert on disasters and risk management at University College London, said he was slightly surprised No. 10 had only deemed it a realistic possibility.

The World Health Organisation carried out a joint external evaluation of the UKs ability to cope with public health risks prior to the pandemic.

David Alexander of UCL says new framework merely ‘an attempt to tinker with the system’

Dr Charlotte Hammer and Professor Jimmy Whitworth, told the probes second public hearing this afternoon that the UK was instead thought to be fairly well prepared.

Covid inquiry hears that from 2018 planning for UK’s disorderly exit from EU ‘drained resources and capacity’