ELLIS TUSTIN

for my dad’s death. We want the Government to accept its failings so the same catastrophic mistakes don’t happen again in the future.

“There are going to be second, third, fourth waves of coronavirus until there is a vaccine and the same mistakes cannot be made again.

“I know we have got a tendency to make

ACTOR Ellis, 25, formed the Names Not Numbers campaign group after his grandfather Berrice Moore, 88, died of Covid-19 in hospital in Worcestershire.

Ellis, who now lives in Fulham, West London, said: “He had been in a care home for the last few years and he was taken to hospital with a water infection and that’s when he was diagnosed with Covid-19.

“He died on Easter Sunday after a week in hospital and I’m angry at the way the Government have handled the

pandemic. I think of it

fun of things that happen in politics. But this is different. This is 44,000 dead and counting. But the only joke here is the Government’s terrible response.”

A Government spokesman said: “This has been an unprecedented global outbreak and every death from the virus is a tragedy.

“The Government has acted to protect like this – if you are a firefighter and a building burns down, you’re not responsible for the fire but if you don’t sort it out then you’re responsible.

“I want them to be held accountable – Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, anyone who was in a meeting and knew people were going to die and they did nothing.

“We are fighting for the families. We’ve seen politicians stand in front of cameras and announce hundreds of people have died.

“Matt Hancock has stood there and pretended to care, but these were people, not just numbers.”

lives, incomes and the most vulnerable in our society. In the future there will be an opportunity for us to look back and learn some profound lessons.

“But at the moment, the most important thing to do is to focus on responding to the current situation.”

Voice of the Sunday People: P14