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Medical chief who broke lockdown rules excused from Covid inquiry evidence

Catherine Calderwood won’t give evidence on the Scottish government’s Covid response ‘due to ill health’

By James Harrison
Medical chief who broke lockdown rules excused from Covid inquiry evidence
Dr Catherine Calderwood, seen here at a Covid-19 press conference in March 2020, has been excused from giving evidence to the Covid inquiry due to ill health | Jeff J Mitchell/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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A top medical adviser who quit after breaking lockdown rules to visit her second home won’t be giving evidence to the Covid inquiry “due to ill health”.

Catherine Calderwood was Scotland’s chief medical officer from 2015 until she was forced to resign in April 2020 after being caught making two trips from Edinburgh to Fife.

But despite her key role in the early stages of the devolved administration’s pandemic response, she has been told she will not have to give evidence to the official probe into the crisis.

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