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The UK Covid Inquiry found Boris Johnson's delayed lockdown and chaotic government culture caused about 23,000 extra deaths during the first wave in 2020, per official report.
- A report by Baroness Heather Hallett states that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson oversaw a 'chaotic' response to Covid-19, contributing to 23,000 deaths in the UK.
- The inquiry concluded that Johnson's government was 'too little, too late' in responding to the pandemic, resulting in unnecessary deaths.
- Baroness Hallett's report includes 19 recommendations aimed at improving future pandemic responses and criticized the use of WhatsApp for decision-making within the government.
- The inquiry emphasized that key actions like social distancing were delayed, and the first lockdown was not imposed until March 2020, which could have been a week earlier.
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»Too little, too late«: In her report, a commission of inquiry into how to deal with the Corona pandemic in Great Britain comes to a drastic conclusion.
Authorities in the United Kingdom did too little and responded too late to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in thousands of deaths in the first wave of the pandemic, according to a report on the response of the government, then led by Conservative Boris Johnson.
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