The Covid-19 public inquiry will consider the advice given to the Government around the G7 summit in Cornwall after the county’s population was hit by a rise in infections of 2,450% following the meeting of global leaders 🔴 Exclusive from DavidParsley50
Chief News CorrespondentThe Covid-19 public inquiry will consider the advice given to the Government around the G7 summit in Cornwall in June 2021 afterof 2,450 per cent following the meeting of global leaders.
Along with the leaders, their entourages, police, security staff, lobbyists and protestors, it is estimated that around 20,000 people attended the summit, with many staying in hotels in towns such as Newquay and Falmouth, as well as inMany of those attending, such a police from around the UK, arrived at least a week before the summit, leading some to suggest the virus was allowed to spread, before, during and after the meeting.
The area around Carbis Bay and Falmouth, where the world’s media were based along with many of the 6,000 of officers policing the event, suffered some of the highest rates of infection in the country as the summit ended. In several Falmouth council wards the rates were more than 500 per 100,000, with Falmouth East hit by a 2,000 per cent rise in infections to 600 per 100,000.
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