The UK has suffered one of the worst death tolls in the world, largely due to a prime minister who wants us to ‘live with the virus’, writes Giles du Boulay
I doubt whether your headline (Bring in measures soon or risk 7,000 daily Covid hospitalisations, Sage warns, 14 September) will make any difference to the callousness shown by the government towards those dying from Covid every day.
Compared with the strict and effective approaches shown by other countries, it beggars belief that we are being told to “learn to live with Covid” when, since restrictions were prematurely lifted on 19 July, over 5,600 people have died and the death rate has now risen to almost 1,000 a week. There are a quarter of a million new infections a week, and we are being told that the effectiveness of the vaccinations is already beginning to wane and that booster jabs are now needed.