you are with bbc news. let s remind you of our top stories. the world s major economies are coming togetherfor a the world s major economies are coming together for a virtual summit to stave off a crisis in afghanistan. the uk government condemned for its handling of covid, described as one of the country s most public health failures. later today the international monetary fund will release its latest global growth forecast and expected to revise downwards its outlook for growth from the outlook it had at 6% in 2021. the imf has previously expressed concerns about disruptions in global supply chains, rising inflation, and vaccine in polity as the global economy attempts to bounce back from the pandemic. will it all be doom and gloom or are there rays of optimism in there? we talk to jamillah whaling from
proven to be the case. but the labour leader said the report s stark conclusions couldn t be ignored. to use language that this was one of the worst public health failures in the uk, that is a damning indictment. and my thoughts are with the families who ve lost people because of these failures. the mps report is highly critical of the test and trace system in england. it says it was set up much too late and that capacity should have been built up much earlier in the pandemic, in line with some other countries. halting community testing in the early weeks had cost lives, according to the report. just one of the government s failings, said the former downing street adviser who d given evidence to mps. me and others put into place work to try and improve the system in 2020, after the first wave. unfortunately, the prime minister, being the joker that he is, has not pushed that work through. the covid pressure on care homes
this is bbc news these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. one of the worst public health failures ever a report by mps condemns the uk response to the early stages of the covid pandemic. early decisions, in particular our slowness to lock down, had consequences, and we have to confront the need to learn lessons from that. there was praise for the uk s vaccine roll out described as one of the most effective initiatives in british scienctific history. we want to know what you think. how would you rate the government s response to the pandemic? get in touch with me on twitter @lukwesaburak, or use
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but that s very vague. we really need to see actual change. but while mps have called the government s early response to the virus one of the worst public health failures, they ve praised the vaccination programme as one of the best initiatives. paul lutrell, who has cancer, got covid 19, despite being vaccinated. but his doctors told him the jab actually saved his life. after surviving the cancer scare, and still having it, knowing that my life is maybe shorter, getting covid was sort of the icing on the cake, really. you know, to survive that, and the staff, the nurses. because i had had my virus injections, i had that chance, you know? it gave me the support of my body needed. without it, it would have killed me. but while many have recovered from the virus and are now protected by the vaccine, millions of others are still coming