Too little, too late:' Former UK government slammed for its initial COVID-19 response

By  PAN PYLAS

Updated November 20, 2025

Source: Associate Press

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LONDON (AP) — A public inquiry released Thursday slammed the U.K.'s initial response to the coronavirus pandemic in the early months of 2020 as “too little, too late,” saying the failure to lock down the country earlier “led to an unacceptable loss of life.”

The inquiry, chaired by former judge Heather Hallett, found that chaos at the heart of the then Conservative government and a failure to take COVID-19 seriously potentially cost 23,000 lives in England alone the first wave of the pandemic.

Hallett’s report on the government response to COVID-19 — the second of four topics on the pandemic that she is assessing — found that the prime minister at the time, Boris Johnson, presided over a “toxic” culture in Downing Street and regularly changed his mind, while leading cabinet members as well as key scientists all failed to act with the urgency needed to tackle the virus.

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