Covid-19 in the UK

Tim Bale

Inserted 2 years ago

“Mr. Johnson is essentially now a prisoner of his more hawkish cabinet colleagues and the 100 or so MPs who seem to be allergic to any kind of public health restrictions. They just feel that the state has grown too big in trying to combat Covid and that they really don't want the government to grow any bigger.”

Nytimes

Professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London

08 Jan 2022 2 5

Matthew Knight

Inserted 2 years ago

“If you are planning to build a field hospital in a car park and to care for patients in an understaffed tent. I think you can justify stopping a few New Year's Eve parties and asking everyone to stay at home for a fortnight.”

Nytimes

Consultant Respiratory Physician at West Herts Hospitals

30 Dec 2021 2 3

Paul Donaldson

Inserted 2 years ago

“It would be ludicrous not to respond more decisively to Omicron, and that Christmas mingling will inevitably have spread Covid. There is a high probability we are moving too late. We will soon start to see the impact of Christmas. We are holding out hope that hospitalisations are at the lower end of projections. But given the uncertainty we face it would be ludicrous not to take additional precautions.”

Theguardian

General secretary of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association

26 Dec 2021 5 3

Deepti Gurdasani

Inserted 2 years ago

“There is nothing at all mysterious about what happened in England. The high levels of community infection resulted in explosive growth when schools re-opened in September. Everything that's happening here was entirely predictable. I expect that the NHS [National Health Service] will collapse. I don't think the NHS is going to cope with winter.”

Politico

Epidemiologist at Queen Mary University London

22 Oct 2021 3 2

Quique Bassat

Inserted 2 years ago

“The U.K. is an outlier, because it does have quite high coverage of vaccination - and is still having 45,000 cases per day. Yet after Britain marked 'freedom day' in July, it was to be expected that there would be a persistence of transmission as opposed to other countries which have maintained much more stringent preventive measures.”

Politico

ICREA Research Professor, Head of the Malaria Programme

22 Oct 2021 3 1

Chaand Nagpaul

Inserted 2 years ago

“The [UK] government has taken its foot off the brake, giving the impression that the pandemic is behind us and that life has returned to normal.”

Politico

Chair of the British Medical Association

20 Oct 2021 2 4

Michael Baker

Inserted 2 years ago

“In New Zealand we have always looked to the UK for leadership when it comes to scientific expertise, which is why it's so remarkable that it is not following even basic public health principles.”

Theguardian

Professor of public health at the University of Otago and a member of the New Zealand ministry of health’s Covid-19 technical advisory group

16 Jul 2021 2 4

Chris Whitty

Inserted 2 years ago

“I don't think we should underestimate the fact that we could get into trouble again surprisingly fast. I think saying the numbers in hospital are low now, that does not mean the numbers will be low in hospital in five, six, seven, eight weeks' time. They could actually be really quite serious. We've still got 2,000 people in hospital and that number is increasing. If we double from 2,000 to 4,000 from 4,000 to 8,000, 8,000 and so on it doesn't take many doubling times until you're in very, very large numbers indeed.”

Bbc

England’s Chief Medical Officer

15 Jul 2021 2 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 2 years ago

“If we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks when we will be helped by the arrival of summer and by school holidays, then we should ask ourselves, when will we be able to return to normal.”

Aljazeera

UK Prime Minister

05 Jul 2021 2 3

Lindsay Hoyle

Inserted 3 years ago

“I don't think we got a picture [for a while] for how big of scale this was, or how it was going to affect the house. Like everybody else, we were underestimating how bad it was going to be. I'll be very open, very honest about that. It was lack of understanding of what we were facing.”

Theguardian

British politician, Speaker of the House of Commons

12 Mar 2021 0 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 3 years ago

“There is therefore no credible route to a zero COVID Britain or indeed a zero COVID world. And we cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy, our physical and mental wellbeing, and the life chances of our children. And that is why it is so crucial that this road map is cautious but also irreversible. We're setting out on what I hope and believe is a one-way road to freedom.”

Aljazeera

UK Prime Minister

22 Feb 2021 3 4

Boris Johnson

Inserted 3 years ago

“I am deeply sorry for every life that has been lost and, of course, as prime minister, I take full responsibility for everything that the government has done. What I can tell you is that we truly did everything we could, and continue to do everything we can, to minimise loss of life and to minimise suffering.”

Aljazeera

UK Prime Minister

26 Jan 2021 2 2

Matt Hancock

Inserted 3 years ago

“The new variant I really worry about is the one that is out there that hasn’t been spotted. There’s probably those elsewhere that simply haven’t been picked up because the country doesn’t have that genomic sequencing service.”

Theguardian

UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

24 Jan 2021 2 4

Dominic Raab

Inserted 3 years ago

“What we want to do is get out of this national lockdown as soon as possible. By early spring, hopefully by March, we’ll be in a position to make those decisions. I think it’s right to say we won’t do it all in one big bang. As we phase out the national lockdown, I think we’ll end up phasing through a tiered approach.”

Reuters

17 Jan 2021 2 1

Sadiq Khan

Inserted 3 years ago

“The stark reality is that we will run out of beds for patients in the next couple of weeks unless the spread of the virus slows down drastically. We are declaring a major incident because the threat this virus poses to our city is at a crisis point. If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS (National Health Service) could be overwhelmed and more people will die. Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave.”

Aljazeera

Major of London

08 Jan 2021 4 2

Boris Johnson

Inserted 3 years ago

“There are obviously a range of tougher measures that we would have to consider … I’m not going to speculate now about what they would be.”

Aljazeera

UK Prime Minister

03 Jan 2021 4 2

Andrew Simmons

Inserted 3 years ago

“here is some research that has taken place already suggesting that only one in four people in the UK are now in a position whereby they can get to vaccination centres. [But] there are plans to roll out more vaccination centres. UK has done quite well with administering vaccines so far, in that it has a supply line that is better than Europe it would seem because of the quicker approvals. But it can’t afford to be complacent because of the figures – now five days in a row we’ve had record numbers of infection rate rises, and we have a situation now whereby the UK is likely to overtake Italy as the worst hit [European] country.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from London

03 Jan 2021 3 2

Andrew Hayward

Inserted 3 years ago

“We are entering a very dangerous new phase of the pandemic, and we’re going to need decisive early national action to prevent a catastrophe in January and February. We’re really looking at a situation where we’re moving into near-lockdown.”

Reuters

Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London

29 Dec 2020 2 1

Boris Johnson

Inserted 3 years ago

“It is with a very heavy heart I must tell you we cannot continue with Christmas as planned. I sincerely believe there is no alternative open to me. There’s no evidence that [the new strain] causes more severe illness or higher mortality, but it does appear to be passed on significantly more easily. Although there’s considerable uncertainty, it may be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the old variant, the original version of the disease. This is early data and it’s subject to review. But it’s the best that we have at the moment and we have to act on information as we have it, because this is now spreading very fast.”

Aljazeera

UK Prime Minister

19 Dec 2020 2 4

Matt Hancock

Inserted 3 years ago

“Hope is on the horizon but we still have further to go so we must all dig deep. The end is in sight, we mustn’t give up now. We must follow these new rules and make sure that our actions today will save lives in future and help get our country through this.”

Reuters

UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

26 Nov 2020 2 1

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“If you are planning to build a field hospital in a car park and to care for patients in an understaffed tent. I think you can justify stopping a few New Year's Eve parties and asking everyone to stay at home for a fortnight.”

“The [UK] government has taken its foot off the brake, giving the impression that the pandemic is behind us and that life has returned to normal.”

“In New Zealand we have always looked to the UK for leadership when it comes to scientific expertise, which is why it's so remarkable that it is not following even basic public health principles.”

“If we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks when we will be helped by the arrival of summer and by school holidays, then we should ask ourselves, when will we be able to return to normal.”

“I don't think we got a picture [for a while] for how big of scale this was, or how it was going to affect the house. Like everybody else, we were underestimating how bad it was going to be. I'll be very open, very honest about that. It was lack of understanding of what we were facing.”

“The new variant I really worry about is the one that is out there that hasn’t been spotted. There’s probably those elsewhere that simply haven’t been picked up because the country doesn’t have that genomic sequencing service.”

“There are obviously a range of tougher measures that we would have to consider … I’m not going to speculate now about what they would be.”

“We are entering a very dangerous new phase of the pandemic, and we’re going to need decisive early national action to prevent a catastrophe in January and February. We’re really looking at a situation where we’re moving into near-lockdown.”

“Hope is on the horizon but we still have further to go so we must all dig deep. The end is in sight, we mustn’t give up now. We must follow these new rules and make sure that our actions today will save lives in future and help get our country through this.”

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