Volume II: Key themes, lessons and recommendations

Table 5: Summary of penalties across the four jurisdictions at the start of lockdowns in March 2020 and January 2021 — 221
Table 6: Module 2 Core Participants — 276
Table 7: Module 2A Core Participants — 277
Table 8: Module 2B Core Participants — 277
Table 9: Module 2C Core Participants — 278

¶Table 10: Summary of evidence requested and obtained in Modules 2,

2A, 2B and 2C — 279
Table 11: Expert witnesses — 281
Table 12: Modules 2A, 2B and 2C additional expert witnesses — 282
Table 13: Module 2 witnesses from whom the Inquiry heard evidence — 283

¶Table 14: Module 2A witnesses from whom the Inquiry heard evidence 287 Table 15: Module 2B witnesses from whom the Inquiry heard evidence 289 Table 16: Module 2C witnesses from whom the Inquiry heard evidence 291

Table 17: Modules 2, 2A, 2B and 2C Counsel teams — 293

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¶" Five days after Daddy went into hospital we had to get the police to break into my mum's house because she was unconscious in bed. She was rushed to the same hospital and she would test positive when she got there. My dad died on the 10th of May. The day we buried Daddy, we were waiting for a phone call because that was the day they thought Mummy was going to die. But she died the next day. So we buried them three days apart."¹¹ UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Module 2C Hearing AM, 30 April 2024, module opening impact film, 14:16-14:54 (https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/video/UC9eFdKVwD1ARs3j9BSoGndw/dP1iAC3Khug)

¶Fiona Humphries, Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice

¶" I feel that my mother was getting more and more nervous going into the second lockdown. I feel the Government were on TV every day talking about all these different things and there was no equality for her as an elderly lady. The elderly were not considered. It was a case of 'keep away from the elderly and vulnerable to protect them' meanwhile other people were in and out of each other's bubbles and houses. There was no consideration for the elderly. I feel they were just numbers. My mum caught covid and died in the hospital."²² INQ000279972_0006 para 32

¶Member of Scottish Covid Bereaved

¶" [My mother] said 'No I'm too afraid to go to the hospital, you know, if i haven't got it and it's just a really, really bad flu, then I'm going to end up with it, I don't want to be on my own' she said. So she was too afraid to go to the hospital."³³ Amanda Provis 28 February 2024 29/7-13

¶Amanda Provis, Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru, whose mother died the following day

¶" I think I immediately found it very difficult to grieve. Not in the traditional sense, in terms of the funeral, obviously that was not available to us but I found it very hard emotionally to feel the – to go through the natural emotional process of grieving, because I think what was blocking me was that I felt very strongly that his death was not an inevitability."⁴⁴ Joanna Goodman 4 October 2023 116/13-19

¶Joanna Goodman, co-founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice