The prime minister says the UK must "act now, for the long term" to protect the NHS.
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Planning focused more on burying the dead than averting disaster, ex-health secretary says.
An addict says the psychoactive substance has "destroyed" the town of Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent.
Sir Chris laments treatment as he gives evidence to Covid Inquiry on pandemic preparedness.
The UK should have prepared to test and isolate more, the ex-health secretary tells the Covid inquiry.
Dame Sally Davies apologises to bereaved families and says the UK was poorly prepared for the pandemic.
England's former Chief Medical Officer says "how sorry I am" to those who lost loved ones in the pandemic.
David Cameron says "group think" meant government focused on flu pandemics, rather than other diseases.
The nation's health was declining and the NHS was struggling by 2020, the Covid inquiry hears.
Decisions were "finely balanced" and, with hindsight, might have been different, Fiona Scolding KC says.