Early U.K. Covid Strategy Caused Many Deaths, Report Says
- ‘Serious mistakes’ made early in pandemic, inquiry says
- Lawmakers say quicker lockdown would have saved lives
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Boris Johnson’s U.K. government made serious mistakes in its early handling of the coronavirus pandemic and should have imposed a full lockdown more quickly, a move that would have saved many lives, a parliamentary inquiry found.
In a sharply critical joint report released Tuesday, the health and social care committee and science and technology committee said the U.K. had adopted a “fatalistic approach” to Covid-19 in early 2020, failing to learn from East Asian countries that halted the spread of the virus using swift lockdowns and mass testing.