Covid testing was a weakness in early pandemic response, DHSC tells inquiry

Covid testing was a weakness in early pandemic response, DHSC tells inquiry The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has admitted Covid testing was “a significant weakness” in the UK’s early pandemic response and stressed the need for proper funding to prepare the nation for the next emergency.

While the DHSC said it would not claim “it did everything right”, its opening statement to the UK Covid public inquiry highlighted wider government choices on funding in what will be seen as turning the focus on Downing Street and the Treasury. The Guardian

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• Pandemic akin to war, lawyer tells Covid inquiry BBC News
• Go easy on us over our Covid errors, lawyers for Cabinet Office and Department of Health beg Inquiry The Daily Mail
• Cuts to NHS budgets to blame for our response to Covid, new inquiry told Evening Standard
• Covid inquiry could be a landmark moment Local Government Chronicle