UK report states: Postponement of closure claimed thousands of victims | Israel Today

The report, entitled "Corona Virus: Lessons to Date," published in Tuesday by members of the British Parliament's Science and Health Committee criticizes the conduct of Boris Johnson's government in the early days of the plague.

The document came out against the mental stalemate that gripped cabinet members and in addition, criticized the opposition to taking drastic measures in order to try and stop the spread of the virus.

"Mortality in the UK in 2020 was worse than many countries - especially compared to those in East Asia even though they were geographically closer to where the virus first appeared. This early scale of losses requires us to ask why the UK was worse off than others," the 145-year document begins. pages.

We have published our joint report with @CommonsHealth.

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- Science and Technology Committee (@CommonsSTC) October 11, 2021

The report includes a thorough investigation of the failures in six main areas: “Epidemic preparedness, use of non-pharmacological measures such as border closure, social distance and closures, testing strategies, follow-up and isolation, the impact of the epidemic on social assistance, the impact of the epidemic on specific communities and acquisition And the distribution of vaccines. "

One of the main points revolves around the closure countries that the government has taken, a step that the authors of the document believe was taken too late and very hesitantly, writing in this context that: And had to arrive earlier, "state committee members state.

Cabinet member Stephen Berkeley, on the other hand, backed government policy, saying "decisions were made based on scientific evidence and recommendations at the time. This is an unprecedented epidemic. We learned in the process and of course there are things we know about today but did not know then."

To date, the death toll from the virus in the UK stands at 138,000 people and an average morbidity of about 35,000 infected daily in the past week.