A British inquiry says Britain's former prime minister Boris Johnson underestimated the dangers of the Covid-19 pandemic and thousands of lives could have been saved

A British inquiry says Britain's former prime minister Boris Johnson underestimated the dangers of the Covid-19 pandemic and thousands of lives could have been saved

 Niklas HALLE'N

About 23,000 deaths could have been prevented in England if the first Covid-19 lockdown had been introduced sooner at the start of the pandemic, a UK public inquiry found Thursday, also slamming a "toxic" and misogynistic culture at the top of government.

The second report from an inquiry into the UK response to the Covid-19 pandemic criticised the government led by Boris Johnson for a "lack of urgency" in the early days of the pandemic in 2020, adding the lockdown was "too little, too late".

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