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At the height of the initial Covid outbreak in March last year, Leilani Medel, a 41-year-old mum, posted a picture of herself and her 13-year-old daughter Carmina on her Facebook page with the caption: ‘Don’t ask me to stay home, I’m a nurse! We fight when others can’t any more.’ Leilani, who lived in Bridgend, South Wales, was born in the Philippines and had worked in NHS hospitals and care homes for the past ten years.  She was described by colleagues as ‘the kindest of souls’ — a ‘passionate’ nurse who would do anything for her patients. Three weeks after that Facebook...

The Covid memorial wall in London. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters Thu 29 Apr 2021 13.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 4 May 2021 12.21 EDT Boris Johnson’s refusal to trigger a public inquiry into the UK’s handling of Covid is facing a fresh challenge as some of the country’s leading experts in government and healthcare demand the launch of an immediate investigation. The Institute for Government (IfG), whose leadership includes the former Conservative cabinet minister David Lidington and the former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury, will call on the prime minister to set up a ...

‘Now is the time’: top experts join call for PM to launch Covid inquiry Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent © ASSOCIATED PRESS Nurses from the nearby St Thomas' hospital sit atop the National Covid Memorial Wall in London, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied a press report which quoted him as allegedly saying he would rather see "bodies pile high in their thousands" than impose a third national lockdown on the country. Media reports have claimed that Johnson made the comment in the fall of 2020, when his government imposed a s...