Elegran, apparently not “far better”, according to a report in the Sunday Times today -
“Opposition parties have pointed to multiple Scottish government failures and are demanding a public inquiry into its handling of the crisis. Other shortcomings they have highlighted include poor pandemic preparation, ventilator shortages, and the abandonment of contact tracing and testing in March.
Labour’s shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray also accused the administration of secrecy and a lack of transparency over the Nike conference outbreak.
He said: “This is a damning verdict on the Scottish government’s catastrophic handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A better communications strategy than Boris Johnson does not negate the fact that we have one of the worst excess mortality rates on the planet.
“It’s little wonder, given that the country’s original Covid-19 outbreak was covered up, that Scotland also has one of the worst testing rates in the world, and with the national scandal of elderly people being sent from hospital to care homes without being tested.”
Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said: “When you examine the Scottish government’s record on delivery, not presentation, it is extremely poor. There are now serious concerns that the testing and tracing system will not function properly and a safe return to work will be compromised.”
Bacteriologist Professor Hugh Pennington described the failure to prevent the virus getting into care homes in Scotland as “abject”.”
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