Covid-19: Bereaved Northern Ireland families in London for inquiry
Northern Ireland was behind the UK in pandemic preparedness, a lawyer tells the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. …
“Throughout these first stages, there were improvements in Northern Ireland’s reaction to the pandemic as a result of increased availability to testing, improvements in pandemic modelling, improved understanding of individual and population behaviours and how they were influenced by modelling, and by the development of vaccines and how their rapid deployment was effected as well as the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions,” she added.