Editorial: The UK government needs to be more rigorous and transparent with information if regional outbreaks of Covid-19 are to be contained
In the game of whack-a-mole, the target pops up in one location and, once hammered down, appears immediately somewhere else. The defining features of the exercise are randomness and futility, which makes it an unfortunate metaphor for Boris Johnson to use for his government’s strategy when dealing with local Covid-19 outbreaks.
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