UK’s Johnson dismissed COVID-19 as a ‘scare story’, ex-chief adviser says
GUY FAULCONBRIDGE and ELIZABETH PIPER PRIME Minister Boris Johnson and the British state failed to appreciate the deadly threat from the novel coronavirus as it raced across the world in early 2020 and were disastrously slow to impose a lockdown, his former adviser said on Wednesday. With almost 128,000 deaths, the United Kingdom has the world's fifth worst official COVID-19 toll. Reuters has reported how Britain was slow to spot the infections arriving, it was late with a lockdown and it continued to discharge infected elderly hospital patients into care homes. In a blistering attack on the British state, Dominic…