Joseph Anderson, Health Correspondent at the UK Covid Enquiry at EICC, Edinburgh

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00:05 Hello, I'm Joseph Anderson, the Scotsman's Health Correspondent.

00:09 Good morning from an absolutely baltic Edinburgh.

00:12 Fortunately for me, I've been nice and warm in the building behind me,

00:15 the Edinburgh International Conference Centre,

00:17 where the UK COVID inquiry has held its first public hearing outside of London.

00:22 This morning, Jamie Dawson-Casey, the lead counsel to the inquiry,

00:26 set out what to expect for the next couple of weeks.

00:29 High on the agenda, according to Mr Dawson,

00:32 is the Scottish Government's WhatsApp messaging.

00:34 Now, he said it's been with great difficulty and several requests

00:38 that they've managed to finally get 28,000 messages

00:42 from the Scottish Government relating to pandemic governance.

00:46 We've also heard a very moving testimony,

00:49 previously filmed testimony of survivors of the pandemic and people who are bereaved.

00:55 We're set to hear a lot more about that later on this afternoon

00:58 when we have the Scottish COVID Bereaved Group

01:01 and we have several third sector and charity organisations

01:04 set to give their opinion on how Scotland handled the pandemic

01:08 and the personal tragedies that befell much of us during that time.

01:12 We'll have more as it comes.

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