Scientists and other experts are being questioned under oath. I swear by almighty god. Sincerely and truly. Declare and affirm. That the evidence i shall give. Should be the truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. Coming up are the key things we learned from the first part of the inquiry that asks when covid hit, was the uk properly prepared . The inquiry is set to last for years but is broken down into different sections. There are so many different ways to express different opinions. Why do we have to have personal abuse . Baroness hallett, a former high courtjudge, is chairing this inquiry. Throughout, the questioning is led by senior counsel hugo keith kc. But if ijust may say, mr hancock, will you allow me, please, in this forum . It is vital for planning. Thats the point. I ask the questions. Of course. That crucialjob is shared by another senior barrister, Kate Blackwell kc. Do you accept, mr cameron, that the Health Budgets over the time of your government were inade
Scientists and other experts are being questioned under oath. I swear by almighty god. Sincerely and truly. Declare and affirm. That the evidence i shall give. Should be the truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. Coming up are the key things we learned from the first part of the inquiry that asks when covid hit, was the uk properly prepared . The inquiry is set to last for years but is broken down into different sections. There are so many different ways to express different opinions. Why do we have to have personal abuse . Baroness hallett, a former high courtjudge, is chairing this inquiry. Throughout, the questioning is led by senior counsel hugo keith kc. But if ijust may say, mr hancock, will you allow me, please, in this forum . It is vital for planning. Thats the point. I ask the questions. Of course. That crucialjob is shared by another senior barrister, Kate Blackwell kc. Do you accept, mr cameron, that the Health Budgets over the time of your government were inade
Wages. Its part of plans to reform the profit and sustainability regulations, which resulted in both Nottingham Forest and everton being deducted points this season. Top clubs would only be allowed to spend a sum linked to the Television Revenues of the bottom clubs in the league. The next stage is the drafting of rules, which will potentially be put to clubs at agm injune. England Rugby Union International Billy Vunipola has apologised and paid a fine after being charged in spain, following an alleged incident. Vunipola called it a misunderstanding and said there was no violence. The bbc understands he was tasered by police on the island of majorca after they were called to a bar in the islands capital. Our sports news correspondent, laura scott, has more. We know that this incident involving Billy Vunipola happened at a club on majorca in the early hours of sunday morning. The number eight, who has played for england on 75 occasions, described what happened as an unfortunate misunder
starting two decades before covid, sars and mers both caused by different forms of coronavirus, spread across parts of asia and the middle east. news: hong kong s airport is one of the busiest in the world. - a single infected airline passenger can carry a virus anywhere - in the world in a matter of hours. professor heymann played a key role in managing that first sars outbreak for the world health organization. what effect do you think having a serious outbreak of those two previous coronaviruses had on countries such as singapore, japan, south korea, taiwan and hong kong? i believe they had a profound effect on those countries. in fact, i visited some of those countries during the period after sars and before the current pandemic, and some of those countries had actually established isolation wards with hundreds of beds in their hospitals.
in fact, i visited some of those countries during the period after sars and before the current pandemic, and some of those countries had actually established isolation wards with hundreds of beds in their hospitals. so they were developing surge capacity in those countries at the same time as they were training their health workers in procedures such as contact tracing. so they appeared to be much better prepared because of what they had learned from the sars outbreaks. the uk and europe didn t see major outbreaks of sars and mers. former health secretary, jeremy hunt, suggests the uk failed to learn the lessons from asia, where fast quarantine and contact tracing then slowed down the spread of covid. this assumption that you can t stop the spread of the virus, i think that was deeply entrenched when covid arrived. we didn t look at countries like south korea and taiwan, which had a very different assumption about the effectiveness of quarantining.