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Nicola Sturgeon told the Covid inquiry that her "biggest regret" of the pandemic was not imposing a lockdown two or three weeks earlier in…

A thousand fewer Scots would have died from Covid in the first wave of the pandemic if SNP ministers had not treated protection for the vulnerable as an “afterthought”, an expert has told the UK Covid Inquiry.

The BBC was allowed to “misrepresent” the risk posed by Covid to most people to boost public support for lockdown, the UK Covid Inquiry has heard.

Warnings about Covid-19 were not listened to in early 2020, an expert has told the UK inquiry.

Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said that the decision to shut classrooms across…

Warnings about Covid-19 were not listened to in early 2020, an expert has told the UK inquiry.

Nicola Sturgeon’s government pursued a more cautious pandemic strategy as it was important to them to be different to England, a top scientist has told the Covid inquiry.

Professor Mark Woolhouse also said keeping people indoors was unnecessary, and that schools should have reopened much sooner.

Ex-chief scientist says only extracts of his evening notes should be released to the Covid inquiry.

Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease and epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh , said lockdown should always be a last resort.