LONDON: A British Parliament report published on Tuesday said that the government delay locked the public when Covid-19 hit last year had the cost of living and “one of the state health failures” in the history of the country “.
In a burdensome assessment, a group of cross-party parliamentarians found that Official Pandemic Planning is too focused on influenza and failed to study lessons from previous outbreaks from SARS, Mers and Ebola.
The 151-page study, published by two parliamentary supervisory committees after months of hearing, came ahead of an independent public investigation into the handling of the government Coronavirus starting next year.
England has been hit hard by a crisis, with nearly 138,000 Covid-19 deaths – one of the highest victims in Europe – since March last year, raised questions about why he had worse than many other countries Waiting for T.
Erlalu was long to encourage locking steps at the beginning of 2020.
The leading adviser has encouraged “intentional policies” to take “gradual and gradual approaches” on intervention such as social distance, isolation and locking, the report said.
The approach has been proven to be “wrong” and leads to a higher dead victim, said parliamentary members, added that the failure to test parents who were dismissed from hospitals to hospital care from the start also caused death.
“Decisions about locking and social distance during the early weeks of pandemic – and suggestions that lead to them – rank as one of the most important public health failures ever experienced by Britain,” they wrote.
There is a “Flatlyism Policy Approach about Covid Prospects in the Community”, which contributes to failure.
Britain is also too slow to introduce insulation of infected people, and mistakenly implement “light border control of light touch” only to countries with high covid levels when most cases come from France and Spain.
Government planning for pandemics is too “narrow and non-flexible based on the flu model”, while the minister and scientific advisor is accused of “groupthink” by several experts, according to the report.
Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt, a former health secretary who decades one of the report committees, said the government also failed to absorb the early experience of South Korea and Taiwan, which quickly introduced mass tests and trace systems.
East Asian countries with direct experience of SARS and MER responding the best in the first half of Pandemi, Hunt told BBC radio.
“We always run to catch up,” he realized the response to the soccer match “with two very different parts”, pointing at the quick launch of the mass vaccination campaign that successfully against Covid in December.
The panel took evidence from various figures, including the controversial Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Advisor Dominic Cummings, who attacked the handling of the crisis of his former boss.
Johnson also faced criticism for his rejection to start public investigations faster.
The British leader announced in May that the probe would continue and examine the government’s actions “equally strict and as possible and to learn every lesson for the future”.
But he has refused to allow him to start before spring next year, with the reason the investigation can inhibit the ongoing country’s pandemic response.
Responding to a new report, Government Minister Steve Barclay recorded praise for parliamentarians from the launch of British vaccination.
“But of course if there is a lesson to learn, we want to do it,” he told Sky News, refusing to apologize and insist the government had followed the applicable scientific advice.
“I think there is a strict debate in the government with science, but of course it’s unprecedented, so it is a growing picture for scientists themselves.”
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