LONDON (UK) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who came under fire for acting too slowly when the pandemic broke out, said on Friday that there may have been things he could have done in a different manner.
“Maybe there were things we could have done differently and of course there will be time to understand what exactly we could have done, or done differently,” he told the BBC.
The prime minister has been criticised for the high death toll that touched 45,000 and the delay in implementing a lockdown.
Had the lockdown been implemented a week earlier, the death toll could have been halved said a member of the scientific advisory group.
Asked whether there was a delay in implementing the lockdown, the prime minister said: “When you listen to the scientists, the questions that you’ve just asked are actually very open questions as far as they are concerned.”
Johnson said the biggest thing that the government failed to understand during the outbreak was the extent of asymptomatic transmissions.
“(COVID-19) was something that was new, that we didn’t understand in the way that we would have liked in the first few weeks and months,” he added.
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