Lockdowns could have been avoided entirely: UK COVID inquiry

Telegraph: Lockdowns could have been “avoided entirely” during the pandemic had ministers reacted more quickly to the emerging threat of the virus, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has concluded.

Baroness Hallett, the inquiry chairman, said that if “stringent restrictions” had been put in place before March 16 2020 there might have been no need for a lockdown…

BBC: Boris Johnson oversaw a “toxic and chaotic” culture within government that led to poor Covid decision-making, the inquiry into the pandemic response has found…

The Guardian: Dominic Cummings “poisoned the atmosphere” of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street during the Covid crisis, the official inquiry into the pandemic has found, saying he helped create a toxic and macho culture with the full connivance of the then prime minister…