A leading infectious disease scientist claims the Government recklessly allowed thousands to catch coronavirus. Prof Helen Ward tweeted: “We said lockdown earlier, we said test, trace, isolate.
They decided they knew better. There will be a reckoning, and it will not be forgiving.” Prof Ward, of Imperial College London’s Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, told the Mirror the decision in early March to stop community testing and contact tracing was a “big problem” which meant we “lost sight” of the pandemic.
Prof Ward said: “The Government instituted the lockdown on March 23. Ten days earlier it was clear we needed stringent social distancing – those ten days were lost.