{"id":17305,"date":"2020-04-19T06:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T21:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/how-did-britain-get-its-response-to-coronavirus-so-wrong"},"modified":"2020-04-19T22:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:51:26","slug":"how-did-britain-get-its-response-to-coronavirus-so-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17305","title":{"rendered":"How did Britain get its coronavirus response so wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the warnings grew louder, Boris Johnson\u2019s government was distracted by Brexit. On testing, contact tracing and equipment supply, there was a failure to prepare <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By late December last year, doctors in the central Chinese city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/10\/birth-of-a-pandemic-inside-the-first-weeks-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak-in-wuhan\">Wuhan <\/a>were starting to worry about patients quarantined in their hospitals suffering from an unusual type of pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>As the mystery illness spread in one of China\u2019s major industrial hubs, some tried to warn their colleagues to take extra care at work, because the disease resembled Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome), the deadly respiratory disease that had killed hundreds of people across the region in 2002-03<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2003\/apr\/21\/china.sars\"> after a government cover-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/18\/how-did-britain-get-its-response-to-coronavirus-so-wrong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the warnings grew louder, Boris Johnson\u2019s government was distracted by Brexit. On testing, contact tracing and equipment supply, there was a failure to prepare Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBy late December last year, d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[531,50,1069,415,451,1152,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-italy","category-matt-hancock","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions\/17338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}