BORIS Johnson is “now not certain” lockdowns labored in tackling Covid.
The former PM stated he believes the restrictions “had some impact” however didn’t basically change issues.
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He stated: “There have been at all times two waves, whether or not you had been in China, the place lockdowns had been ruthlessly enforced, or Sweden, the place they took a extra voluntary strategy.”
In his upcoming memoir Unleashed, serialised within the Mail on Sunday, he added: “Perhaps there are limits to human company.
“Perhaps it isn’t potential for authorities motion to repel the waves of a extremely contagious illness, any greater than it’s potential to repel the tide of the Thames.
“I’m not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I’m certain they’d some impact.
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“However had been they decisive in beating again the illness, turning that wave down?
“All I can say is that I’m now not certain.”
His phrases come after Prof Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, informed the Covid inquiry this week that he now fears Mr Johnson’s authorities didn’t convey the menace degree of the pandemic appropriately when it started.
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