Earlier lockdown could've saved more lives - inquiry hears

Summary

1. The UK Covid-19 inquiry is in Cardiff for the final of its three weeks to scrutinise the Welsh government's handling of the pandemic
2. Vaughan Gething, Wales' health minister for the first two waves of the pandemic, is giving evidence all day on Monday
3. Gething, a contender to be Wales' next first minister, says his missing WhatsApp messages being unavailable to the inquiry is a matter of real "embarrassment"
4. Gething says he regrets not keeping schools open for longer
5. Local lockdowns, which started in Caerphilly in September 2020, were the right things to try, Gething tells the inquiry
6. A total of 10,271 people in Wales have died due to Covid - with a further 2,299 deaths listing Covid as a contributing factor