The response of the UK’s 4 governments to the pandemic was a "repeated case of too little, too late" and tens of hundreds of lives, together with 23,000 deaths in England, might have been saved had necessary lockdowns been launched sooner, the COVID-19 Inquiry has discovered.
Baroness Heather Hallett, the chair of the inquiry, admitted in her abstract that politicians within the authorities and devolved administrations had been compelled to make selections the place "there was often no right answer or good outcome".
"Nonetheless," she stated, "I can summarise my findings of the response as ‘too little, too late’".
The report says all 4 governments "failed to appreciate the scale of the threat or the urgency of response it demanded" within the early a part of 2020 and that, regardless of "clear signs" that the virus was spreading globally, "all four nations failed to take sufficiently timely and effective action".
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