🔗 Share this article Confinement Seven Days Earlier Would Have Spared Twenty-Three Thousand Fatalities, Pandemic Inquiry Determines A damning independent inquiry regarding the UK's management of the Covid situation has found which the reaction were "too little, too late," noting how enacting restrictions only seven days sooner would have spared more than twenty thousand fatalities. Primary Results of the Inquiry Documented through over seven hundred and fifty pages across two volumes, the findings depict a consistent picture showing procrastination, inaction and a seeming inability to absorb from experience. The account regarding the beginning of Covid-19 in early 2020 is portrayed as notably brutal, calling February as "a lost month." Government Errors Emphasized It questions the reasons why the UK leader did not to convene a single meeting of the Cobra emergency committee during February. The response to the pandemic largely stopped during the mid-term vacation. During the second week in March, the state of affairs had become "almost disastrous," with inadequate preparation, insufficient testing and thus no clear picture about the degree to which Covid was spreading. What Could Have Been While recognizing the fact that the move to impose a lockdown was historic as well as hugely difficult, implementing additional measures to slow the spread of coronavirus earlier could have meant that one might have been avoided, or at least been shorter. Once a lockdown became unavoidable, the investigation stated, if implemented enforced on 16 March, estimates showed this could have cut the total of lives lost within England in the first wave of Covid by around half, equating to over 20,000 deaths prevented. The inability to recognize the scale of the danger, or the immediacy for measures it demanded, led to the fact that when the option of compulsory confinement was first discussed it had become too late and a lockdown were necessary. Repeated Mistakes The report additionally noted how many of the same failures – reacting with delay as well as downplaying the speed together with consequences of the virus's transmission – were then repeated later in 2020, as controls were eased only to be delayed reintroduced because of infectious mutations. The report describes such repetition "unjustifiable," adding that the government did not to absorb experience over repeated outbreaks. Total Impact The United Kingdom endured one of the worst Covid crises in Europe, with about 240,000 pandemic lives lost. This report is the second from the national inquiry regarding each part of the response as well as handling of the pandemic, that started in previous years and is scheduled to proceed until 2027.