The UK Covid inquiry continues to scrutinise the Welsh government's handling of the pandemic.
Prof Diamond discussed the higher excess deaths - which is the difference between the number of deaths recorded for a specific place and time, and the number of deaths that would have been expected anyway in the absence of a crisis. He also covered the numbers of deaths in people’s homes, as well as care homes and communal housing such as sheltered housing.
He also said more people with terminal illnesses may have died at home rather than in hospices. He earlier talked about how the weekly Covid infection survey was introduced in Wales in August 2020, three months after a pilot in England. It took thousands of swabs from people to check if they were infected and said, with Covid fast moving, results were needed at pace. “We didn’t have an accurate measure of how much Covid was in the population – the proportion at any moment who had Covid.
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