now, in this joint report, they criticise that early response. instead of locking down quickly, like some other countries, they say the government s scientific advisers felt there was no choice but to bring in social distancing rules gradually, letting sporting events go ahead and keeping borders open, and they say ministers did not do enough to challenge that advice. what we conclude in this report is that the national response to covid was a bit like a football game with two very different halves, and in the first half, we had some serious errors, we could have avoided a lockdown, but having got into a position where we had to have one, we should have locked down earlier. but in the second half, we had the vaccine rollout, which we describe as the most effective initiative in the history of uk science and public administration. some of the relatives of those who have died responded angrily to that comparison. this isn t a game. my mother didn t lose
this is bbc news. the headlines. a damning report from mps who call the government s early handling of the pandemic one of the worst public health failures in uk history, costing thousands of lives. early decisions, in particular our slowness to lock down, did have consequences, and we ve got to confront the need to learn lessons from it. the report criticised the chaotic system of test and trace and moving infected patients into care homes. families of the victims say lives were lost in vain. i think she lost her life because of mistakes that were made by the government, and i want to know about that, i want to hear about it in a fulljudicial inquiry.
not got any plans to invest in care homes and to properly train people working in care homes. we are very worried that this is going to be a report that papers over the cracks and we still haven t learned some real lessons. aha, and we still haven t learned some real lessons. and we still haven t learned some real lessons. a lot of people would a . ree with real lessons. a lot of people would agree with you. real lessons. a lot of people would agree with you, that real lessons. a lot of people would agree with you, that there - real lessons. a lot of people would agree with you, that there needs l real lessons. a lot of people would | agree with you, that there needs to be recommendations to avoid this happening again, so what more would you want to know, what further detail would you want, and the scope of the inquiry we are supposed to be having next bring about what would you want that to be? ? next spring, what would you want that to be? t what would you want that to be? i wou