At the beginning of April 2020, a group of senior epidemiologists charged with advising the Government on Covid met for their weekly meeting. The country was barely two weeks into lockdown and in the thick of that first devastating wave. That month, the virus would reach its peak for 2020 – out of 13,000 excess deaths in mid-April, around 9,500 were attributed to Covid.
With Covid-19 facilities being dismantled and an inquiry starting late, the nation’s ability to react quickly to future health threats has been lost, experts say
Last August, Pape and his family went on a city break to Birmingham, making the most of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s discount scheme. The day after he arrived home, his symptoms began