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Sunak Apologizes After Damning Report on U.K. Infected-Blood Scandal

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain issued a stark apology on Monday to victims and families of one of the country’s worst health care failures after a damning report found that blood contaminations that killed 3,000 people and infected more than 30,000 others could have been largely avoided.

“This is a day of shame for the British state,” Mr. Sunak told lawmakers in the House of Commons, where he made a “wholehearted and unequivocal apology” for what he said were repeated failings by British officials.

“I am truly sorry,” he said, just hours after publication of a long-awaited report that identified a catalog of “failures” over two decades by government and medical officials in Britain, and most of the avoidable errors were then covered up.

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