Boris Johnson 'skipped' five emergency meetings on the coronavirus as it spread rapidly across the world and ignored warnings from scientists, according to a report

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• Boris Johnson skipped multiple emergency meetings on the coronavirus in January and February as it spread rapidly across the world, according to a damning report in the Sunday Times newspaper.
• By the time Johnson appeared at the first Cobra meeting to discuss the virus on March 3, more than 40 people had already tested positive for COVID-19.
• "He liked his country breaks. He didn't work weekends," said an unnamed advisor.
• The report also claimed that the government failed to act on warnings from scientists about the virus.
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Boris Johnson missed multiple emergency meetings on the coronavirus as it spread rapidly across the world and ignored warnings from scientists about its lethality, according to a damning report in the Sunday Times. The result was Britain lost "a crucial five weeks in the fight to tackle the dangerous threat of coronavirus," it said.

Johnson, who is not currently working as he recovers from the coronavirus, reportedly skipped five of the government's emergency Cobra committee meetings in January and February held to discuss COVID-19, which has now claimed more than 15,000 lives in the UK.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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