Boris Johnson reportedly told the Italian prime minister in March that the UK was aiming for herd immunity, according to a new documentary.
Herd immunity is the theory that populations can develop natural protection to a virus once more than 60% of the population has caught it. However, Italian health minister Pierpaolo Sileri, told Channel 4's Dispatches that the UK prime minister informed Giuseppe Conte of his plan during a phone call on Monday, March 13.: "I remember it perfectly because it was the same weekend that I discovered I had COVID.
However, medical experts reportedly warned Johnson's government early in the pandemic that a policy of attempting to achieve herd immunityJohnson's government did eventually choose to impose a lockdown, after receiving scientific advice that the UK risked hundreds of thousands of deaths without imposing the restrictions.'The Government has been very clear that herd immunity has never been our policy or goal," they said.Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
Who the hell does his hair? Is he not aware that he's in the public eye?
Going by the government's response to the pandemic, that was an open secret.
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