The World Health Organisation declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020
Covid-19 deaths in the UK during the first wave of the pandemic could have been reduced if the UK went into lockdown just two weeks earlier, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. A lockdown should have been called on March 9, 2020 instead of two weeks later on March 23, a Government scientist has said.
Asked to elaborate, he told the inquiry: “Once we had lab confirmed deaths in ICUs with no travel history, no obvious connections to any out of country social networks, even a handful of those would indicate that we would be rapidly progressing in our epidemic.” . It comes as evidence submitted to the inquiry by a leading think tank suggests that the NHS and social care in the UK is still “highly vulnerable to future shocks” to the system.
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