UK waited too long to impose COVID-19 lockdown, report finds

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UK waited too long to impose COVID-19 lockdown, report finds. 9News

, missing a chance to contain the disease and leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, a parliamentary report has concluded.

“In the absence of other strategies such as rigorous case isolation, a meaningful test-and-trace operation, and robust border controls, a full lockdown was inevitable and should have come sooner.’’ It was unanimously approved by 22 lawmakers from the three largest parties in Parliament: the governing Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party and the Scottish National Party.

“Millions of lives will ultimately be saved as a result of the global vaccine effort in which the U.K. has played a leading part,” the committees said.But they also criticised the government’s test-and-trace program, saying its slow, uncertain and often chaotic performance hampered Britain’s response to the pandemic.

The report described this as a “serious early error” that the UK shared with many countries in Europe and North America.

 

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QLD locked down early, has great figures, still get slammed for shutting borders, but low deaths and covid figures. Can’t win either way prefer low deaths

Hindsight Heroes

They prefer to relive the glory old days of colonialism in sailing the seven seas in show of foregone Imperial might. Stay home and save your floundering archaic country

China didn't though. Do you think they've done better?

AlboForPM

No way bruh this is shocking news...

Government games.

Yes lockdowns work great and are the answer.

must of went to the same school of pandemic management as Gladys.

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