UK begins first inquiry into government’s pandemic response

The first preliminary hearing looking into the United Kingdom government’s COVID-19 pandemic response has opened, promising to get to the truth in a process will “not drag on for decades”.
Baroness Heather Hallett, a former Court of Appeal judge who chaired the inquiry that began on Tuesday after a one-minute silence, said: “There’s one word that sums up the pandemic for so many, and that is the word ‘loss’.”
While the first session laid out procedures for future meetings, the in-person inquiry was heard by those who lost family members to the coronavirus pandemic at the height of lockdown.

Al Jazeera’s Charlie Angela reports from London.

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