Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted this Wednesday that neither he nor his team “gave sufficient confidence” to scientific mortality forecasts early on pandemic they also did not realize the real risk posed by corona virus.

Johnson is testifying today through Thursday ahead of the official investigation. health crisis, presided over by a former judge Heather Hallett which, in the second of four stages, reviews the decisions of the authorities.

The former Conservative leader admitted that his “mentality” in January and February 2020, “like that of the vast majority of ministers and civil servants in Whitehall (where the main government buildings in London are located), did not reflect the level of anxiety that would have been necessary.”

“If we really stopped to think about the mathematical implications of some of the predictions that were being made and believed them, we might act differently,” he said.

Johnson argued that “people haven’t calculated the implications of the numbers” based on what was already happening in countries such as China And Italy, and it was presented to him “much later as a matter of national importance.”

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“We had to realize; We should have done this collectively much earlier. “I should have understood,” he said.

Johnson ordered the first lockdown in Great Britain March 23, 2020, which several previous witnesses considered too late.

Earlier, the former Conservative leader deplored the “pain and suffering” suffered by the victims of the attack. COVID-19 and admitted that his government had made mistakes for which he said he was responsible.

(EFE)