The UK may not have been 'very well prepared at all' to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the lead lawyer to the official Covid-19 Inquiry said as public hearings began.Hugo Keith KC said on Tuesday that the nation was 'taken by surprise' by 'significant aspects' of the disease that has been recorded on 226,977 death certificates.

The UK may not have been 'very well prepared at all' to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the lead lawyer to the official Covid-19 Inquiry said as public hearings began.Hugo Keith KC said on Tuesday that the nation was 'taken by surprise' by 'significant aspects' of the disease that has been recorded on 226,977 death certificates.