Relatives of those who died with Covid give their reaction to the testimony of Boris Johnson’s former aide
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Lobby Akinnola’s stomach churned when he watched Dominic Cummings give evidence to parliament on Wednesday. Last April his father, Olufemi, a 60-year-old care worker from Leamington Spa, died from Covid having had to improvise his own PPE while working in the community.
Hearing Cummings talk about that time was “a trauma” and “hard to watch”. Among the claims made by the prime minister’s former adviser was that even as the pandemic took hold in Britain health officials still planned to take months shipping in PPE.
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