The UK government was too slow to impose a nationwide lockdown and the country's coronavirus death toll could reach 40,000, a leading health expert said
The government also faced separate criticism over its supply of Personal Protective Equipment for health workers.
Britain has the fifth-highest official death toll from COVID-19 in the world, after the United States, Italy, Spain and France, though the UK figure only covers hospital fatalities and the real number is probably much higher. A man jogs past messages of support on a fence in St Albans, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, St Albans, Britain, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Matthew Childs
The government launched a new initiative on Friday to coordinate British efforts to find a vaccine, although business minister Alok Sharma said any such solution would take many months and refused to set out a timetable.Health minister Matt Hancock said mass community testing was part of the British strategy, though the government has yet to find an antibody test that is accurate enough to be used.
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