Boris Johnson has been accused of failing to heed his own advice on social distancing
‘ If leaders do not adhere to their own recommendations, this undermines trust in them, which in turn can undermine the population’s adherence to their advice. The advice was to go to work only if essential or if you could not work from home and could guarantee your own and others’ safety by keeping at least two metres apart.
Dr John Ashton, a former regional director of Public Health England, said yesterday’s dramatic developments highlight why the country’s lockdown should have been introduced much earlier on. Michael Gove held the press conference in Downing Street after Boris Johnson became infected with coronavirus Professor Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, said: ‘Leaders need to lead by example. It wasn’t a good thing that he was telling people that he was going around shaking hands and being quite nonchalant about the virus.’
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