Britain has been left to play catch up and firefight its way through the coronavirus pandemic due to a 'desperate' lack of clear leadership, one of its most renowned scientists said on Friday.
LONDON - Britain has been left to play catch up and firefight its way through the coronavirus pandemic due to a “desperate” lack of clear leadership, one of its most renowned scientists said on Friday.
Paul Nurse, a Nobel prize winning geneticist and head of the Francis Crick Institute in London, said it was not clear to him who was in charge and the country, including the “lions” on the front line, needed much more.“I get a sense the UK has been rather too much on the back foot, increasingly playing catch up, firefighting through successive crises.”
Official statistics show the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll has reached nearly 43,000, underlining the country’s status as the worst-hit in Europe. However, the Nobel laureate said the government and its scientific advisers needed to set out a clear strategy and the evidence that underpinned it, and then learn from mistakes.
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