British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture: POOL VIA REUTERS/BEN STANSALLIt’s almost exactly a year since the coronavirus made its first impression on the UK, when a government-chartered plane flew 83 British passengers home from Wuhan to a wind-swept military airfield west of London.
“It’s hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic,” Johnson said in a televised press conference on Tuesday evening. “I am deeply sorry for every life that has been lost.” The political stakes are high: Johnson will be put to the test in local and mayoral elections later this year. He also faces a showdown with Scottish nationalists, and with his own increasingly jumpy Conservative colleagues over the restrictions.
Last March, Johnson breezily brushed aside the threat, openly joking about shaking hands with staff in a hospital treating Covid-19 patients. In April, he was admitted into ICU with the virus. One of the biggest problems was the UK’s inability to run an effective test-and-trace operation to keep track of infections and ensure patients didn’t spread the disease. In the early months of the pandemic, the UK had to give up trying to test people because its maximum testing capacity of just 2,000 a day was nowhere near enough as the virus spread exponentially.
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