The Covid Inquiry is tachying Evidance from Politicians, Health Experts and Families About the impact of the Pandemic on Children and Young.
In July 2024, The Inquiry’s First Report Said The Uk’s Flawed Had to More Deaths and Greater Economic Damage Than Have Been.
JUST UNDER 227,000 People died in the uk from Covid BetWeen March 2020 and May 2023, come the World Health Said The “Global Health Emergency” was over.
What is the Covid Public Inquiry and when did it start?
The Covid Inquiry Was Launched by Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in June 2022More than aar after he said the government’s actions during the pandemic would be “under the microscope”.
The announcement came after the Covid-19 bereaved Families for Justice Campaign Said it was consider Launching a Judicial Review Over what it Called Government “Time-Wasting”.
Johnson Said the Inquiure Wold Cover Decision-Making by the Uk Government, as well as the administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The first public Hearings took place in london in june 2023. Subsequent Hearings have been held in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
Publicies inquiries are estabished and finished by the Government and are led by an independent chair. They can compel witnesses to give evidence.
No-One is Found Guilty or Innocent, but the Inquiry Publishes Conclusions and Recommendations, Which the Government is not obliged to Accept.
WHO IS Leading the Covid Inquiry?
Baroness Hallett Said the Inquiry Waled Examine How Decisions on Limitting the Spread of Covid Were made and Communicated; The use of Lockdowns and Face Coverings; and the impact on Children, Health and Care Sector Workers, and the Clinically Vulnerable.
The effect on bereaved families, and how the findings is applied to the Other National Emergencies Wold Also be Consider, She Said.
What is the Inquiry Looking at?
The Inquiry is Split Into Different Parts.
Work on the first module, Resilience and preparednessHas Finished, But the Inquiry is Actively Investigating Sevel Other Aspects of the Pandemic:
- Decision-Making and Political Governance in Westminster, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- The impact on healthcare Systems Across the UK
- Vaccines, Therapeutics and Anti-Viral Treatment
- Government Procurement and PPE
- The Care Sector
- test-and-trace
- The impact on Children and Young People
- The Government’s Business and Financial Responses
- The impact on Society
There is no specific Timescale for How Long the Inquiry Will Last.
Howver, The Final Public Hearings are due to Begin in February 2026.
Scotland is Holding A Separate Inquiry into the pandemic.
What did the Covid Inquiry’s First Report Say?
Several Reports Are Expectted, Covering Everything From Political Decision-Making to Vaccines.
The first of these was published in July 2024, and in it baroness Hallett Said The UK Had Been “Ill-Prepared for Dealing With A Catastrophic Emergency, Let Alone the Coronavirus Pandemic”.
“Never Again Can a Disease Be Allowed to Lead to SO MANY DEATHS AND SO MUCH Sufofering,” she added.
Break 217-Page Report argued The UK Planned for the Wrong Pandemic – A MILD ONE WHERE SPREAD OF A NEW VIRUS WAS INEVITABLE – AND THIS LED TO “UNTESTED” policy of lockdown.
It Said the Uk Government and Devolved Nations “Failed their Citizens”, and that ministers did not sufficiently challenge scientific experts.
It made a series of recommendations for reforming the way the Government apprroaches Emergency Planning Across the Four Nations of the UK.
Baroness Hallett Said She Wanted these to be acted on quickly, with changes in place with six months or a year.
Who has gioven evidence to the Inquiry?
The Inquiry Has Heard from Hundreds of Witnesses. They Include Current and Former Politicians, Civil Servants, Government Advisers, Public Health Experts and Representatives of Beeaved Families.
Mary Were Extremely Critical of Form Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was in no 10 throughout the pandemic.
He began his two-day evidence session in december 2023 by apologising for the “Pain and the Loss and the Sufgering” Experienced During the Pandemic.
Johnson admitted Mistakes were made and that “there are unquestionably Things we have been should have done differently”, but insisted that ministers had ther “level best” in difficult circumstances.
Prime forms minister Rishi Sunak Gave Evidence About His Role As Chancellor During Covid.
He Also Apologodied to “All Those Who Suferered … As A Result of the Actions that Were took”, But Denied His Eat Out to Help Out Scheme Had Incresed Infections and Deaths.