The Welsh government responded to the pandemic with “sloth-like urgency”, according to the country’s Covid bereaved families group.
The comments were made by Kirsten Heaven, counsel for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families Cymru, on the final day of the inquiry in Cardiff. She added that the Welsh government had tried “to hide from the Welsh people their chaotic response”.
In her closing statement, the barrister singled out Vaughan Gething, the health minister during the pandemic, and Mark Drakeford, the outgoing first minister, for failures to heed warnings that asymptomatic transmission of the virus was occurring in early 2020.
