WATCH: Baroness Heather Hallett outlines damning findings from Covid report

The UK was "ill prepared" for the outbreak of Covid and planned for the wrong type of pandemic in the years before the worldwide outbreak, the damning first report of the Covid Inquiry has found.

Publishing her 240 page assessment of the UK's preparedness for the pandemic, the Covid-19 Inquiry's Chair Baroness Heather Hallett said the health emergency plans suffered from "several significant flaws."

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