National, state responses must be included in any COVID-19 pandemic royal commission | The Border Mail

Sweden provides the best-practice example. Although adopting a different, less-repressive approach to most other countries, Sweden was proactive by initiating at the beginning of the pandemic, an ongoing commission of inquiry to assess the government’s responses during, as well as after, the pandemic. Over two years it released numerous interim reports, concluding with a two-volume final report.