Twelve key points from Dominic Cummings' evidence to select committee on Covid response

New York State, the original epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, is loosening all state Covid-19 safety restrictions, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

Dominic Cummings are "not true", as he fought to save his career. The Prime Minister's former aide accused Hancock of repeatedly lying, being disastrously incompetent and claimed he should have been fired on multiple occasions during the course of the pandemic.

Kate Garraway has shared her feelings about Dominic Cummings' evidence on how the Government handled the coronavirus pandemic and the impact it had on her family, saying those in charge "didn't care enough".The Good Morning Britain presenter opened up on her reaction to the former adviser's comments about Boris Johnson and key ministers' attitudes to the unfolding crisis, talking about how it made her feel as her family are still dealing with the effects of their decisions.

Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway appeared slightly downbeat as she reflected on "how different things could be" for her husband Derek Draper on Thursday's show.Her comments come after Dominic Cummings shocked the nation when he made a series of explosive claims about the mistakes made by the government during the coronavirus pandemic.READ: Kate Garraway reveals husband Derek is on long road to recovery in new health battle updateWATCH: Kate Garraway reveals the sweet words husband Derek

seven hours of evidence to the science and technology, and health and social care committees yesterday Boris Johnson's former special adviser pointed the finger at the First Minister for "babbling" about discussions at COBRA meetings. Cummings said that the meetings involving the devolved UK leaders in the COBRA national security meetings became a pretence because Sturgeon was beating Downing Street to the cameras with the decisions immediately afterwards.

shock news that one in every 10 care home residents died of Covid in the first year of the pandemic. Care Inspectorate figures showed 3774 lost their lives to the virus up to March 31, 2021.

The tiering system that led to an explosive stand-off between Greater Manchester and the government last October had been ‘bodged together’ on the fly with no financial support plan in place, the Prime Minister’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has said, while Boris Johnson ‘constantly changed his mind’ about what places should be subject to what measures.

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Prime Minister’s former adviser said Johnson dismissed the pandemic as a “scare story” or the new “swine flu” in early 2020 as the global crisis loomed and then had to be persuaded to lock down in March.

coronavirus pandemic to an infamous Spider-Man meme.Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief advisor, who was at the centre of last year’s Barnard Castle scandal, gave testimony to the Commons Health, and Science and Technology committees at Westminster today (May 26).During the lengthy questioning, Cummings made damning allegations against the PM, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and other government figures over their response to COVID-19 in 2020 and beyond.He said that Hancock should have

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Prime Minister was called on by the SNP’s Ian Blackford to apologies for the thousands of covid deaths over the last year. The SNP Westminster leader said: “The Prime Minister’s most senior former adviser, Dominic Cummings, apologised on behalf of the UK Government."“He said ‘when the public needed us most, we failed’.“We know the Prime Minister made a series of catastrophic errors throughout the crisis.“He went on holiday when he should have been leading efforts to tackle the pandemic.

MPs Boris Johnson's former adviser apologising for the Government’s failures during the coronavirus pandemic. The former aide said: “The truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its Government in a crisis like this.