Scotland's Covid bereaved are demanding First Minister Humza Yousaf answers key questions as he faces the UK Covid Inquiry today.
The First Minister was a cabinet secretary for justice and then health during the pandemic. And today he will be grilled on key decisions the Scottish Government took to contain the virus – which claimed 16,465 lives in Scotland.
Yesterday, families of those who died in the outbreak demanded answers from Yousaf on vital decisions – including the scandal of care home deaths, PPE in hospitals and the decision to keep schools open.Yousaf was also urged to come clean on why government ministers and senior officials – including the then first minister Nicola Sturgeon – deleted WhatsApp messages.
Among those demanding answers today are the family of Thomas Lee, 82, who died of Covid in an Edinburgh nursing home in May 2020.
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