The inquiry says an earlier lockdown could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England - and lockdown could have been avoided altogether with earlier interventions.

As a damning report finds all four UK governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat posed by COVID-19 or the ...

The UK did “too little, too late,” in its early response to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to thousands of more deaths, ...

Lack of effective data flows and reduced scientific investment hampered response During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, it took up to three weeks for confirmed cases to be ...

The 756-page report from the inquiry, chaired by retired judge Heather Hallett, found that a “toxic and chaotic culture” in ...

LONDON — A public inquiry released Thursday slammed the U.K.'s initial response to the coronavirus pandemic in the early ...

About 23,000 deaths could have been prevented in England if the first Covid-19 lockdown had been introduced sooner at the start of the pandemic, a UK public inquiry found Thursday.

Net migration to the UK fell by two-thirds in the year to June to 204,000, the lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic, ...

A new inquiry into the UK government’s handling of the pandemic in 2019 has been released, which slams the shortcomings of ...

The “toxic and chaotic” culture at the centre of the United Kingdom’s government led to a delayed response to the COVID-19 ...

The criticisms were contained in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry's second report, which examined government decision-making at the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the botched handling of it have been tragic in many different ways. One of the still emerging tragedies has been delays in the diagnoses of and care for other types of ...