Britain's failure to impose a nationwide lockdown to tackle the spread of the coronavirus sooner has cost many lives, one of the government's scientific advisers said on Sunday.
FILE PHOTO: Professor John Edmunds poses for a photograph outside the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, Britain April 6, 2020. Picture taken April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo
Britain is one of the worst-hit countries in the world, with a death toll of more than 50,000 from COVID-19, according to a Reuters tally this week based on official sources. Despite reservations from some of its own scientific advisers, the government is now easing nationwide lockdown measures which have closed much of the economy since March 23.
“The data we were dealing with in the early part of March and our situational awareness was really quite poor so I think it would have been very hard to pull the trigger at that point but I wish we had ... I think that has cost a lot of lives.”
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