A barrister for bereaved families at the Covid inquiry in Cardiff has called for all Welsh Government WhatsApps during the pandemic to be published.

Counsel from several key organisations made closing speeches, as three weeks of hearings in Wales came to an end.

The Welsh government was accused of a “sloth-like urgency” in its early response to the pandemic in early 2020.

It said it gave a “reasonable response to the unprecedented challenge to civil society”.

Kirsten Heaven, counsel for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families Cymru, said the Welsh government had shirked a granular inspection of Welsh decision-making, by refusing a Wales-only inquiry.