ð Share this article Confinement One Week Earlier Might Have Saved 23,000 Fatalities, Covid Investigation Finds An harsh independent investigation regarding the United Kingdom's handling to the pandemic crisis determined which the reaction was "too little, too late," noting that implementing confinement measures just seven days earlier would have prevented in excess of twenty thousand fatalities. Primary Results of the Report Outlined across over seven hundred and fifty sections spanning two volumes, the results depict a consistent picture showing delay, lack of action as well as an apparent inability to understand from experience. The account regarding the start of Covid-19 in the first months of 2020 is particularly harsh, calling February as "a lost month." Official Errors Emphasized It raises questions about why Boris Johnson neglected to lead one meeting of the emergency crisis committee during February. Action to the pandemic largely stopped during the school break. During the second week of March, the state of affairs was "little short of calamitous," due to inadequate strategy, no testing and consequently no understanding regarding how far the coronavirus had circulated. Possible Outcome Although acknowledging the fact that the choice to enforce a lockdown proved to be unprecedented as well as hugely difficult, enacting other action to curb the spread of coronavirus sooner would have allowed such measures could have been prevented, or alternatively been less lengthy. Once confinement was necessary, the inquiry authors noted, had it been imposed on March 16, modelling suggested this might have cut the count of fatalities across England in the first wave of the pandemic by around half, which equals twenty-three thousand fatalities avoided. The inability to understand the magnitude of the threat, and the need of response it necessitated, resulted in that by the time the possibility of enforced restrictions was initially contemplated it had become too delayed so that a lockdown became inevitable. Recurring Errors The report further pointed out how a number of similar failures â responding too slowly as well as underestimating the speed together with effect of Covidâs spread â were then repeated subsequently in 2020, when controls were eased and subsequently late reimposed in the face of infectious mutations. The report calls this "unacceptable," noting that the government did not to learn lessons through repeated outbreaks. Overall Toll The United Kingdom experienced one of the worst pandemic crises across Europe, recording about 240,000 virus-related lives lost. The inquiry is another by the public review covering all aspects of the handling and handling to Covid, which was launched two years ago and is expected to run into 2027.