Dame Sally Davies close to tears as she apologises to Covid bereaved at inquiry – video

The former chief medical officer for England issued an emotional apology to the Covid bereaved at a public inquiry into the UK’s preparedness. It emerged she had asked for a review following an earlier coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong but was told ‘it won’t come here’. Prof Dame Sally Davies was being cross-examined when she said ‘maybe this is the moment to say how sorry I am to the relatives who lost their families’. Close to tears, Davies said: ‘It wasn’t just the deaths, it was the way they died. It was horrible. And I heard a lot about it from my daughter on the frontline, as a young doctor in Scotland. It was harrowing and it remains horrible’