As Covid-19 cases rise, Boris Johnson faces first real opposition since UK election
The second wave may have been ‘inevitable’, according to the UK’s prime minister, but it also the result of clear mistakes
Boris Johnson is right back where he was six months ago: faced with a choice of how far to clamp down on freedoms to suppress the coronavirus’s transmission. Only then, the strategy was simple. Britain’s lockdown was to protect the capacity of the National Health Service to save lives. This time, the goal is more complicated and so are Johnson’s choices.
There may be disagreements on what exactly a second wave is — the UK has come a long way from seeing 500 deaths a day in March (there were 27 were recorded Saturday) — but the arrow is moving in the wrong direction and the question is how the government will respond. In Britain, infections are doubling about every week. Only the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have had more deaths from the virus...
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