Pandemic planning and preparedness in Wales was “wholly inadequate”, the legal counsel representing bereaved Welsh families told the first public hearing of the UK’s official Covid inquiry today.
Speaking on behalf of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru, Kirsten Heaven said many of those bereaved people experienced and continue to experience “suffering and trauma” owing to Covid-19 and “feel they were let down by their government”.
“They feel let down because they have experienced first-hand the consequences of what they consider to be the catastrophic failure of the Welsh government to adequately prepare for, and respond to, a pandemic in Wales,” she told the first public hearing of module one of the Covid inquiry, which is interrogating the UK’s pandemic planning and preparedness.
