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‘Politics could trump public safety’: Welsh health chief’s Covid warning

The Covid-19 inquiry was shown warnings from a Public Health Wales boss sent before lockdown even began

‘Politics could trump public safety’: Welsh health chief’s Covid warning
Signs in the window of a chemist in Rhiwbina, Wales, in December 2021 | Matthew Horwood/Getty Images
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Wales’s top public health officials were warning that “national politics could trump public safety” before the UK had even confirmed its first coronavirus lockdown.

The early stages of the pandemic were marked by a scramble across the world to develop and buy effective tests for the emerging disease.

But as well as different countries scrapping it out for diagnostic kits, claims have also been made that the home nations were also forced into horse trading.