Professor Steven Reilly said the government should have called the lockdown on 9 March 2020 instead of 23 March.
The UK could have had fewer COVID-related deaths if the country had gone into lockdown two weeks earlier, a government scientist has said. Professor Steven Reilly, who worked for Imperial College London at the time of the pandemic, told the UK COVID-19 Inquiry that the government should have called the lockdown on 9 March 2020 instead of 23 March.
The inquiry heard how Mr Johnson described long COVID as 'b*******' and that his wife, Carrie, had been described as 'the real person in charge' by the head of the UK's civil service. A document from October 2020 described the symptoms of the condition, beside which the-then prime minister wrote 'b*******' and 'this is Gulf War Syndrome'. Mr Johnson repeated similar remarks in a WhatsApp message four months later, the inquiry heard.
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