Boris Johnson and his Government have failed to observe one of the most fundamental Public Health protections when faced with an infectious disease for which there is no treatment.
Boris Johnson failed to keep people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus away from the uninfected.
That failure manifested in two contexts:
- If the United Kingdom had closed its borders on 31st January 2020 the numbers in the UK infected with Covid-19 would have been tiny. Deaths to date from Covid-19 in the UK would have been tiny and possibly zero.
- After the failure by Boris Johnson and those surrounding him to close the UK borders on 31st January 2020, the National Health Services in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland failed to take effective steps to keep Covid-19 infections in most hospitals as close to zero as possible.
On 31st January 2020 I believe that there was sufficient evidence of the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic to justify the UK Government closing the borders.
That closure of the UK borders would, in my estimation, have been immediately achievable by virtue of powers that the UK Government has by virtue of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
A closure of the UK borders on 31st January 2020 would have been for an initial period of 7 days, by virtue of the effect of Section 27(1) of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which requires that Regulations made under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 must be laid before Parliament as soon as reasonably practicable and lapse after 7 days in the event that the Regulations are not approved by a resolution passed by each House of Parliament.
Boris Johnson's failure to close the UK borders continued for weeks, despite the growing evidence of the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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