Dr Catherine Calderwood, seen here at a Covid-19 press conference in March 2020, has been excused from giving evidence to the Covid inquiry due to ill health
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A top medical adviser who quit after breaking lockdown rules to visit her second home won’t be giving evidence to the Covid inquiry “due to ill health”.
Catherine Calderwood was Scotland’s chief medical officer from 2015 until she was forced to resign in April 2020 after being caught making two trips from Edinburgh to Fife.
But despite her key role in the early stages of the devolved administration’s pandemic response, she has been told she will not have to give evidence to the official probe into the crisis.
According to documents on the inquiry’s website, Calderwood wrote to inquiry chair Heather Hallett in November asking to be excused “due to ill health”.
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After reviewing a “detailed medical report” submitted with the request, Hallett concluded Calderwood would not be required to attend hearings “for the foreseeable future”.
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