here's greg clark again.again. we had to stop _ and often chaotic. here's greg clark again. we had to stop testing - and often chaotic. here's greg clark again. we had to stop testing in - and often chaotic. here's greg clark again. we had to stop testing in the community and if you are not testing that means you do not have information as to how quickly the virus is spreading, who is getting at, how ill they are becoming. so that meant we were operating in the dark. we should have been much quicker in developing the lead that we had in developing the test into testing capacity. it’s we had in developing the test into testing capacity-— testing capacity. it's important to know that today's _ testing capacity. it's important to know that today's report - testing capacity. it's important to know that today's report did - testing capacity. it's important to | know that today's report did point out some successes. a praise the uk's vaccination programme and called the development of vaccines one of the most effec

here is greg clark again. >> we had to stop testing in the community. not testing, you have information as to how quickly the virus is spreading, who is getting it, how ill they are becoming. that meant we were operating in the dark. we should have been much quicker in developing the leads we had in developing a test. into testing capacity. >> today's report did highlight some successes and praised vaccination program and for the development of vaccines, one of the most effecve initiatives in history that saved millions here and across the world. here is jereunt again. >> we had the vaccine rollout, the most effective initiative and history of u.kscience and public administration. the discovery of treatments that saved a million lives around the world. and the fascinating thing that makes it difficult to sum up in one clean sentence or instinct how we get is that it is often e same people responsible for both sets of decision. people that had at least one dose of the vaccine. over 67% have been fully vaccinated. in the clips we have heard jeremy hunt wa

science long—awaited committee and science and technology committee and the health committee and greg clarky hunt have been conducting an inquiry into the governments handling of the covid—i9 crisis and it is not the official inquiry for next spring or has been ongoing over recent months. a lot of expert witnesses and the findings are quite unsurprising to anyone who has been following the pandemic which is really quite damning and you can see that with the fact that many different papers of decided to go a slightly different angles and that's because there's so much in this report for them to sink their teeth into. and i think reading a news report that the have headline findings, it's surprising but the slowness with which the government acted and so, with lockdown, the report says if it had locked down a week earlier back in march 2020, the death toll in the first wave would have been half a 40,000 to 20,000. so that is absolutely huge. he looks at the failings of care homes and the fact that more people died in care homes the necessary and looking at the huge failings in the track and t

greg clark mp, thank important requirement. greg clark mp. thank you _ important requirement.on. sojohn wilson is the son of the great bob wilson. good morning, bob. 0ne the son of the great bob wilson. good morning, bob. one of the nicest humans on the planet. used to play in goal for scotland as well. wales got the job done last night in the world cup qualifiers. wales beat estonia 1—0 to keep their world cup qualification hopes alive. it was a hard fought win in tallinn, and watching was andy swiss. manager rob page said his team would go all out and attack. it was a scrappy goal in the end that secured the win. it means wales can still secure a play—off place. they are third behind the czech republic and the leaders belgium in the group. it has been a great camp for us, two away games, the performance we gave on friday in the czech republic was outstanding. we are still a young group as well. they are learning from these experiences. to come to a place like this we knew we were never going to dominate. we knew it was going to be an ugly game. we had to match that first and

number to die, and as the chairman of the science and technology committee in the house of commons greg clarkbe.— the public would be. there was the assumption — the public would be. there was the assumption that _ the public would be. there was the assumption that public _ the public would be. there was the assumption that public would - the public would be. there was the assumption that public would not l assumption that public would not obey— assumption that public would not obey lockdown measures for a long period _ obey lockdown measures for a long period so _ obey lockdown measures for a long period so you had to delay imposing them _ period so you had to delay imposing them until— period so you had to delay imposing them until almost the last possible moment_ them until almost the last possible moment so they could have the longest— moment so they could have the longest effect. what we discovered in practice — longest effect. what we discovered in practice was that actually people were perfectly prepared to follow instructions to stay at home, because _ instructions to stay at home, be