UK government fumbled start of COVID-19 crisis: MPs' probe

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LONDON: British government delays in locking down society when COVID-19 hit last year were \u0022one of the most important public health failures\u0022 in the country\u0027s history, a parliamentary report said on Tuesday (Oct 12). In a damning assessment, a cross-party group of British Members of Parliament found g

LONDON: British government delays in locking down society when COVID-19 hit last year were"one of the most important public health failures" in the country's history, a parliamentary report said on Tuesday .

Britain has been hit hard by the crisis, with nearly 138,000 COVID-19 deaths since March last year, raising questions about why it has fared worse than other nations. There was a"policy approach of fatalism about the prospects for COVID in the community", which contributed to the failures.Government planning for a pandemic was also misplaced and too"narrowly and inflexibly based on a flu model", while ministers and advisers were accused of"groupthink" by some experts, according to the report.

 

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