The inquiry’s hearings in Belfast begin on Tuesday and will run for three weeks.
Legislation to ensure people are never restricted from visiting dying loved ones is needed, campaigners have said ahead of the first UK Covid-19 Inquiry sitting in Belfast.
A campaign group representing bereaved Northern Ireland families will hold a public gathering to coincide with the first day of the Belfast sittings. Speaking ahead of her inquiry appearance, she told how her aunt, Marie Reynolds, contracted Covid during a hospital admission before being discharged to a care home where she subsequently died.
She said: “We need to find out what went wrong, what went right and what decisions were made specifically for and in Northern Ireland, who made the decisions and on what basis and scientific advice were they taken.” Ms Doherty, from Newtownabbey, lost her mother Ruth Burke to hospital acquired Covid-19. Mrs Burke was the first woman in Northern Ireland to lose her life to the virus in March 2020.
On a visit to Belfast, inquiry secretary Ben Connah highlighted the inquiry’s Every Story Matters online platform for people affected by the pandemic to share their stories.The inquiry has already held hearings in England, Scotland and Wales and Mr Connah said it was crucial to examine the situation across all the UK nations.
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