How well has the Government handled coronavirus? The outbreak is the biggest challenge faced by the country since the Second World War.
It has required a huge economic bailout and an immense effort by the NHS, care staff and other key workers. But has the response by Boris Johnson ’s administration been adequate?
Here our experts look at what the Government got right and what they got wrong, and deliver their verdicts. Lockdown WHAT THEY GOT RIGHT We managed to introduce lockdown measures without shutting vital public spaces.
This approach has managed to maintain extremely high levels of public support for the measures. Covid-19 victims are infecting on average fewer than one person each – the crucial “R0” reproduction number threshold