Too little, too late:' Former UK government slammed for its initial COVID-19 response, P2
- Shidonna Raven
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By PAN PYLAS
Updated November 20, 2025
Source: Associate Press
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After weeks of rising cases and days after most other European nations had gone into lockdown, Johnson announced a U.K.-wide lockdown on March 23, 2020, arguably the biggest decision of any British prime minister since the end of World War II.
Hallett said the actions of the U.K. government, as well as those of the devolved nations — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — were “too little, too late.”
“Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than March 23, the evidence suggests that the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave up until July 1 2020 would have been reduced by 48%,” Hallett said. “That is approximately 23,000 fewer deaths.”
She said that the lockdown could have been shorter were it introduced earlier.
“At the very least, there would have been time to establish the effect of the restrictions on levels of incidence and whether there was a sustained reduction in social contact,” she said.
The U.K. suffered one of the deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks in Europe, with about 240,000 virus-related deaths.
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