Boris Johnson reacted too slowly to Covid-19, says former scientific adviser

Sir David King shocked that Cheltenham festival was allowed during coronavirus outbreak

Boris Johnson and his advisers have been accused of responding too slowly to the coronavirus outbreak by a former chief scientific adviser, who expressed shock that the Cheltenham festival and other big events were allowed to go ahead in mid-March.

Prof Sir David King said he was “really saddened by the predicament we are in” and that the UK “didn’t respond so much sooner once this epidemic broke out in China”.

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