25-11-2025 18:28 via theguardian.com

Covid inquiry lays bare unforgivable failures of Boris Johnson’s government | Letters

Readers respond to the official report on the handling of the pandemicRe your report (‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response, 20 November), shortly after lockdown began, my family lost an aunt and uncle within an hour of each other to Covid in different hospitals in Manchester. Their son was in a third in A&E, also with Covid, but survived. Six months later my father, who was in hospital recuperating from major surgery, was rushed out of the bui
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