LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Britain let down its citizens by leaving the nation ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic because of significantly flawed planning and failures by ministers and scientific ...

Families who lost loved ones during the pandemic have hit out at Boris Johnson’s “deafening silence” over his pandemic errors revealed in the Covid inquiry report. The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for ...

Hearings in the inquiry’s 10th and final module, examining the pandemic’s impact on society, will conclude on Thursday.

The second stage of the three-part official UK COVID Inquiry—dealing with the response of the four governments of the UK (covering England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) to the pandemic—has ...

“The UK prepared for the wrong pandemic.” That is a key conclusion from the first part of a government inquiry examining the UK’s response to the covid-19 pandemic, specifically looking at its ...

The UK is experiencing a new spike in COVID-19 infections driven by two recently emergent Omicron subvariants dubbed “Stratus” and “Nimbus”. Together these now account for the majority of cases in the ...

Mark Woolhouse holds grants from the European Union and the Wellcome Trust. He was previously a member of the UK's advisory group on modelling SPI-M-O, the Scottish Government's Covid-19 Advisory ...