Coronavirus: Families of victims call for full independent inquiry

A help group for individuals who have misplaced family members to Covid-19 is looking on Boris Johnson to carry an instantaneous public inquiry into the pandemic.

Foyer Akinnola and Leigh Morgan Jones of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice say it is important that classes are realized, and utilized within the occasion of a second wave of the illness.

Talking to the BBC’s Brian Wheeler, Foyer mentioned he believed black and ethnic minority communities have been being uncared for.

Leigh thought her father ought to have gone to hospital sooner and that NHS 111 have been too gradual to identify signs.

In response to those criticisms, an NHS spokesperson mentioned: “GPs, nurses, paramedics and different well being service workers working within the 111 cellphone and on-line service have performed a key function in serving to tens of millions of folks get the precise care and recommendation – whether or not for coronavirus or another pressing medical wants.”

The prime minister has promised that an inquiry will likely be held into the pandemic “sooner or later” however that now isn’t the “proper second”.