LONDON: The British government Boris Johnson made a serious mistake in the initial handling of the Coronavirus pandemic and should impose full locking faster, a step that will save many lives, parliament investigations found.
In a very critical joint report released on Tuesday, the Social Health and Social Care Committee and the Science and Technology Committee said Britain had adopted the “Fatistic Approach” to Covid-19 in early 2020, failed to learn from East Asian countries that stopped the spread of viruses using fast locking and bulk testing.
In contrast, England effectively accepts “that immunity beetles with infection are inevitable results,” said the committee.
The decision meant the virus was allowed to spread through a population before locking finally began on March 23, 2020, the report said.
The government denies that herd immunity has been part of a pandemic strategy.
But parliamentarians said: “It is now clear that this is the wrong policy, and it leads to a higher initial death toll road than the resulting from a more decisive initial policy.” The findings add to the pressure on the Prime Minister of Johnson for Pandemi’s decision making, ahead of the main public investigation because he started the following spring.
A spokesman said the government “never avoided taking fast and decisive action” during a pandemic.
The Cabinet Minister Steve Barclay repeatedly refused to apologize when asked about the findings of the report on Tuesday, said the government had acted on the best information at that time.
“We follow scientific advice,” Barclay told Sky News.
“We always say that with something unprecedented when a pandemic has a lesson to learn, and we want to learn it.” Labor Shadow Secretary Jonathan Ashworth called the publication of “Damning Reports” documenting “monumental errors.” The victim of the Killed Covid England in 2020 was “significantly worse” than many countries, especially compared to Asian countries closer to the place of the virus first appeared, the report said.
Until now Britain has recorded 137,000 deaths, the most in Western Europe.
Leading epidemiologists Neil Ferguson, from the London Imperial College, told the Science Committee in June 2020 that death would decrease at least half if national locking was taken in the previous week.
The committee ‘Chaotic’ concluded that it was a “serious mistake” to stop testing widespread in March 2020 – decisions associated with lack of capacity.
As a result, contacts cannot be traced and accurately monitor the spread of viruses throughout the country becomes impossible.
“England decreases to understand the spread of Covid-19 by waiting for people to be sick so they need to be hospitalized,” said the report.
Large-scale testing was only continued in mid-May 2020.
The testing system, trail and isolates – with a budget of 37 billion pounds ($ 50.4 billion) – is “slow, uncertain and frequently chaotic” Throughout the first year of Pandemi, the Committee was found, and this “Very hampered” English response.
That “finally failed” in its purpose to prevent locking in the future even though the “broad” budget, the report concluded.
Parliamentarians also criticized the decision to allow parents to be removed from the hospital to the treatment house in the initial phase of the pandemic without “accuracy as shown in places like Germany and Hong Kong.” “This, combined with untested staff bring infection to homes from the community, causing thousands of deaths that can be avoided,” said the report.
The committee did praise the government for its success, including the initial support for vaccines as a route from a pandemic, and the launch of Covid-19 treatment “truly in the world”.
This report is one of the highest profile tests of the pandemic carried out until now.
Law demands in France and Austria, plus an investigation in Italy, also focuses on the early days of pandemic.