Two U-turns and a lot of chaos: it's been a painful week for Boris Johnson

One thing is clear, the government is very worried about a resurgence of coronavirus in the UK

A week is a long time in a coronavirus pandemic – a fact the government has learned all too painfully. Avoiding a one-week delay to lockdown in March would potentially have halved the death toll, it has previously emerged.

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