Sunak sorry for institutional blood scandal cover-up

LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized on Monday for the failures of successive governments over an infected blood scandal that led to 3,000 deaths and said it was a "day of national shame".

The final report of a public inquiry into the scandal accused the government of covering up the disaster.

Former judge Brian Langstaff, who chaired the inquiry, said more than 30,000 people received blood and blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis from the 1970s to the early 1990s from the National Health Service, destroying lives, dreams and families.