One year on and 149,000 deaths later Boris Johnson admits regrets over handling of first Covid wave
Channel: Labour Heartlands
Date: 2021-03-23

Boris Johnson admitted he’d have done “many things” differently during the pandemic, during a press conference to mark the first anniversary of the UK plunging into lockdown.

It came on the day new figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a total of 149,117 people have had Covid-19 recorded on their death certificate since the pandemic began.

He told the Downing Street press conference: “In retrospect, there are probably many things that we wish that we’d known and many things that we wish we’d done differently at the time, in retrospect, because we were fighting a novel disease under very different circumstances than any previous government had imagined.

“The single biggest false assumption that we made was about the potential for asymptomatic transmission and that did govern a lot of policy in the early days, or that misunderstanding about the reality of asymptomatic transmission certainly led to real problems that we then had to work very, very hard to make up ground.”

Mr Johnson’s admission came as people across the UK have taken part in a minute’s silence to remember Covid-19 victims after a terrible 12 months that has cost the nation a loss of nearly 150,000 people.
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