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It will discuss the extent to which these adjustments have emerged from adjustments in infection rates and the extent to which they are due to lack of planning, but there is no doubt that they have harmed the government.
In March, according to IpsosMori, 49% of the public said they thought the government was handling the pandemic very well or quite well, and 35% said it was poorly or poorly administered.
When the same surveying company made the same query in September, the figure that said it had been mismanaged rose by 50%, with only 32% on the right side, a trend change from 14% to -18%.
Here is a timeline of some of the movements made during this period:
March: a month later, no containment
As the new coronavirus spread from China to the rest of the world, the UK government began drafting rules to help it prevent its spread, starting with the undeniable message of starting to wash its hands more and more on 2 February.
Throughout the month, instances increased, eventually leading to the first death and, in response, an action plan was published, inspired by arrangements for a influenza pandemic.
But even on March 3, there was no indication that they wanted to replace people’s pictorial habits, with Boris Johnson saying at a press convention that they had to raise their hands while they wanted to sing two “happy birthday” verses.
The minutes of a sage assembly prior to that day show that leading medical figures and clinics “discussed the effect of possible social and behavioral interventions on the spread of a Covid-19 epidemic in the UK,” but the biggest challenge turns out to be: asking the over-65s to start taking social distance.
And the official minutes of the next meeting, held two days later, show that the organization considered that “lately there is no clinical explanation why stay away from containment efforts in the UK. “
They discussed the implementation of isolation measures for others with coronavirus symptoms and, within a few weeks, began to “socially isolate those of vulnerable groups,” but Sage “agreed that there is no evidence to recommend that the ban on very gigantic gatherings. “decrease transmission. “
March 12: Mass tests abandoned
Matt Hancock, who had a higher capacity in recent weeks to a total of 25,000 tests, announced that the government would avoid all network testing for Covid-19 and focus on evaluating others in hospitals and protective fitness workers. , in addition to high-risk environments such as retirement homes and prisons, while the government has moved from the “contain” to “delay” phase.
An assembly of Sage two days earlier had agreed that “on the basis of monitoring . . . the UK has thousands of instances – up to 5,000 to 10,000 – that are geographically distributed nationally.
Behind this was the UK’s inability to stick to the much-loved style of mass testing in South Korea, which already controlled more than 10,000 people a day, a consistent network of sonal and public laboratories. laboratory, the public health england facility in Colindale, consistent with the completion of the entire treatment, with a capacity of only 500 consistent tests per day.
Four days later, the director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “We have a message for all countries: test, test, test. “
March – FMH Starts
The first primary replacement in other people’s daily lives occurred when the Prime Minister issued one in the House of Commons telling others to “start running from the house where they can” and also “avoid pubs, clubs, theaters and other social places. “
This came after an assembly of Sage that morning, where it was agreed that “there is transparent evidence that more measures of social estating are taken as soon as possible” after evidence that appeared to be spreading much faster than before, with fears for the first time that the NHS will simply overflow.
It was shown through the full shutdown announced a week later, and the introduction of the slogan “Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives. “
April 2: Mass tests return to the menu
Less than a month after reporting the price of mass testing, Matt Hancock announced that he was looking to succeed in 100,000 consistent tests from day to end of the month.
A national detection strategy discussed at a previous Sage assembly on the day, but transferred to other summits, and at the assembly a fortnight later, minutes show that PHE “confirmed that it cannot provide a network detection program. “
May 10: Get to paint if you can
Nearly two months after the release of the slogan ‘Stay home’, Johnson tried to replace that message, switching to the ununderstood and highly ridiculed motto of ‘stay alert’ on May 10, telling the country, “We said that paintings from home if you can, and it only happens checkered if necessary.
“We will have to tighten now that anyone who cannot paint from home, for example in structures or manufacturing, will have to be actively encouraged to move on to painting.
But it was the audience when he added: “And we need you to be able to get to the pictures safely. Therefore, it deserves to avoid public sending if possible, because we will have to maintain and maintain the social distance and, therefore, capacity will be limited. “.
“So you pictures from home if you can, however, you go to checkered if you can’t check out pictures from home. “
The emotions of the audience were su summarized through a viral tweet from comedian Matt Lucas, who mocked the prime minister in a video where others were continually told “go to work, don’t go to work,” but it’s simple to perceive why the government is looking to revive the economy, after the Bank of England has just declared that the UK is about to enter its worst recession in three hundred years. Matrix production is expected to fall by almost 30% in the first part of 2020 and unemployment more than doubled until the end of spring.
May 18 – Test for All
Hancock announced that any elderly person age five and older in the UK with symptoms can now be screened for coronavirus, and the fitness secretary said the government “is expanding eligibility for testing more than ever. “He also revealed that more than 21,000 coronavirus contact markers had now been hired across England, and the test and follow-up formula is expected to be operational on June 1.
July 4 – Independence Day
Contrary to popular belief, the Prime Minister never said it was a “patriotic duty” of the public to return to the pub, but agreed with a Conservative MP in the Commons on June 23, who said that others “do as productive as possible for Britain. “through returning to the pubs when they reopened on the Fourth of July.
“Yes,” he said in reaction to Gareth Johnson, I urge others to use the freedoms they are rightly acquiring, but I will have to insist that others act responsibly. “
For four days, the Chancellor made one in the House of Commons outlining other plans to help the hotel industry, and was filmed bringing food to people’s tables at a branch in Wagamama, east London.
August 1: A in HMF policy
The message about running out of the house was replaced when the Prime Minister held a press conference on Downing Street on July 17, saying, “Starting August 1, we will update our tips on how to get to work.
“Instead of the government telling others to paint from home, we’re going to give employers more discretion and ask them to make decisions about how to paint their cans safely.
“Of course, this can mean simply proceeding to paint from home, which is a way of painting and has painted for many employers and employees.
“Or it can mean simply having workplaces follow Covid Secure’s guidelines. Regardless of employers’ decision, they deserve to consult seriously with their workers and only ask others to return to their workplaces if it is Array»
This came after the Pandemic Influenza Modeling Panel, the subgroup known as SPI-M-O, presented evidence that point R decreased from the highest figure of 1, and remained there for several weeks.
August: Go out to eat to help
The flagship program to revive the workplace industry and its 1. 8 million jobs was launched, and the public provided cash in the local food for lunch during the month. He followed knowledge of dark places to eat through OpenTable, which revealed that bookings decreased by an average of 54% in July compared to the same month last year.
By the end of the month, more than a hundred million food had been claimed under the plan, and the chancellor was then forced to protect the policy opposed to accusations that she had helped cause the peak of the moment in the UK, following the hypothesis about the last day of the regime. , which took a position on Monday’s August banking holiday, coincided with the start of construction in the cases of Covid-19. “I think it’s probably simplistic to take a look at one thing, ” said Mr. Sunak.
August 18: Let them do some tests
After a series of ambitious control goals, Hancock shows a new plan to give the entire population normal coronavirus controls as a component of a long-term plan to facilitate blockade.
He told the BBC: “Mass tests, population tests, where we commit to other people being tested regularly, so allowing us to allow the return of limited freedoms is a massive allocation of government right now.
August 28 – Go paint “or waste your work”
The next replacement in tone came on August 19, when Matt Hancock said there was “little evidence” of the spread of coronavirus in offices, suggesting that the disease is not an explanation of why to stay home, but this rhetoric has been significantly reinforced through an impressive Telegraph cover on August 28 with the headline “Repaint or threaten to waste your work. “
According to the article, the prime minister was involved over empty offices and the fact that other people are not returning to city centres on their own, and a government source told the newspaper that other people who remain in the house will be “in maximum vulnerability position. “When corporations seek to restructure.
This is even though a Sage meeting the previous day suggested that ‘R may be higher than 1 in England and across the UK’; however, at the same time, Pret a Manger announced that it will eliminate 2,800 jobs, with attendance statistics appearing in Despite the good luck of The Eat Out to Help Out, the number of other people who visited the main streets fell by almost 40% in August 2019.
September 19th: test schedule
After days of capacity and processing problems, with reports of an accumulation of 185,000 checks and others to be canceled, the government admitted that there was a problem. Sarah-Jane Marsh, check manager at NHS Test and Trace, apologized and tweeted, “All of our verification sites have capacity, so they don’t seem to be crowded, our remedy lab is the focus. “
But Hancock accused others without coronavirus symptoms of getting tested, suggesting that about 25% of other people who receive a kit are not really eligible, a figure that, according to the Department of Health and Social Services, “comes from internal monitoring and traceability search. “The Secretary of Health also admitted that the challenge could take weeks and, in the meantime, would republish a list of test priorities, with members of the public at the end of the line.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, who warned others not to “take off their pants” when the measures began to be released, said the accumulation of coronavirus cases occurred because other people had “relaxed too much. “
But according to some stakeholders in the testing infrastructure, the challenge lay in the staffing challenges at the government’s Lighthouse Labs, which relied on PhD and postdoctoral academics to process samples. Now they were going back to college, which left a severe shortage.
September 22 – Back home
Less than a month after government resources told others that they risked wasting their duties if they didn’t return to the office, the promised public data crusade to inspire this was suspended, after Michael Gove went on the air to say, “We’re insisting that if it’s painting in his officeArray if you’re in a secure office through Covid , deserves to be there if your task requires it.
“But if you can paint from home, you should. “
The replacement component of a package of measures presented by the Prime Minister for a moment of de facto blockade after positive cases tripled from late August to almost 5,000 per day on 22 September, the highest since the virus peaked in the early stages. Can.
September 24 – Last Orders
And six months after the advent of closure, new restrictions came into effect in pubs, bars and restaurants, and bettors were evicted from the premises at 10 p. m. It was later reported that Sage had not modeled the effect of such a curfew, nor had he. his subgroup of behavioral sciences, with Professor John Edmunds, stating that this would have a “negligible” effect on the epidemic.
Johnson said evidence showed that “the spread of the disease tended to occur later in the night after eating more alcohol” and defended 10 p. m. Last time, with the government suggesting that a measure in Belgium led to a drop in the number of cases. The example of early closure has also been accompanied by full night curfews, and a multitude of parliamentarians have asked for evidence that it will work to reduce cases in the UK.
Richard Caring, owner of the Ivy restaurant chain, warned that other people would simply drink on the street and at house parties after 10 p. m. , saying, “Does the passing government really say everyone will come home in bed?”
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