Timeline of events leading up to the Infected Blood Inquiry

The government is expected to apologise on Monday as an inquiry published its final report into the UK’s infected blood scandal.

Tens of thousands of people were infected with HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood and blood products from the 1970s to early 1990s.

An estimated 3,000 people are believed to have died and many others were left with lifelong illnesses in the scandal, widely seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of the NHS.

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