UK's initial response to Covid led to thousands more deaths, inquiry says | BBC News

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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry said the government response to the pandemic in March 2020 was "too little, too late”. The 800-page report also said that imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England. But it also said lockdown could have been avoided altogether if steps such as social distancing and isolation had been introduced earlier. The inquiry criticised all four UK governments, saying they "did not take the pandemic seriously enough until it was too

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