It is the heartbreaking number we all hoped we’d never reach. In Britain’s coronavirus tragedy, 100,000 people have died - leaving behind millions of loved ones struggling to cope without them.
How did we get here? Here we look at the catalogue of blunders, U-turns and bad decisions that led us to have the highest death toll in Europe.
No contingency plan Boris Johnson scrapped a team of senior ministers charged with preparing the country for a pandemic six months before the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK.
The group was suspended by former PM Theresa May so the ministers could focus on Brexit, and abolished by Johnson a few days after he entered Downing Street.