Politicians underestimated Covid-19 threat, admits EU chief
Italian soldiers conducting checks at the border in Menton, southern France, on Sunday. The French president has likened the coronavirus outbreak to a war and ordered almost the entire population to stay home for at least two weeks. – EPA pic, March 18, 2020.
POLITICAL leaders “underestimated” the magnitude of the danger posed by Covid-19, admitted the European Commission president today, as the European Union shuts its borders. “I think that all of us who are not experts initially underestimated the coronavirus,” Ursula von der Leyen told Germany’s Bild newspaper in an interview.
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