Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon and former deputy first minister John Swinney will give evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Thursday.
Ms Sturgeon has repeatedly mentioned the pandemic was one of many hardest issues she has ever had to cope with in her political profession.
In her resignation speech as first minister, she mentioned: “Main this nation by means of the Covid pandemic is by far the hardest factor I’ve performed.
“It might be the hardest factor I ever do. I actually hope so.
“Now by no stretch of the creativeness was my job the toughest within the nation throughout that point.
“However the weight of duty was immense and it’s solely very just lately, I feel, that I’ve began to comprehend, not to mention course of, the bodily and psychological influence of it on me.”
Scotland, like different international locations all through the world, was coping with a virus which was unknown and new
Jeane Freeman, former Scottish well being secretary
On Wednesday senior Scottish Authorities officers started giving evidence to the inquiry.
Jeane Freeman, the previous cupboard secretary for well being and sport, mentioned that whereas Scotland may have higher dealt with the pandemic, there was in the end “no plan” that might have helped the nation deal with Covid-19.
She mentioned: “There have been actually areas the place Scotland may have been higher ready by way of the underlying construction and supply of all these suggestions.
“However Scotland, like different international locations all through the world, was coping with a virus which was unknown and new.
“So in that sense, I don’t consider there’s a plan that will have been potential that will have been ready, in and of itself, to deal with Covid-19.”
The inquiry can even hear from Sir Jeremy Farrar, former director of the Wellcome Belief and present chief scientist at the World Well being Organisation.
He will probably be joined by Catherine Frances, director common for native authorities, resilience and communities at the Division for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
