A damning assessment of government failure to prepare the quotes alleged 5 weeks of missed opportunities and political in nashua the british Governments National Crisis Committee is called by the acronym cobra Prime Minister Boris Johnsons failure to attend any of the 1st 5 coronavirus cobra meetings is singled out for particular criticism government ministers reject the sunday times allegations the idea that the Prime Minister skipped meetings that were vital to. Response to the growing of us i think its protests and the truth is that the other meetings across government so much richard by the Health Secretary so much a chaired by other ministers but the Prime Minister took all the major decisions and i think anyone who considered what happened to the point is just a little while ago nobody can say that its some throwing heart and soul into fighting this virus an unnamed Senior Advisor to downing street is quoted in the sunday times as saying this is no way youre at war if your pm isn
To introduce a number of prominent members of big business the Construction Labor Workforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callaghan north America Building Trades Union sharon mcgarvie is a lot of friends of mine labors International Union of north america terrio sullivan and to sharply criticized the World Health Organization announcing his administration would suspend funding had the w. H. O. Done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out chinas lack of transparency ironically President Trump is on the record praising trying to prove transparency in dealing with a virus having what was described as a friendly phone conversation with president xi at the end of march and subsequently tweeting we are working closely together much respect. Once again president tran prepares to be ignoring the principle of the separation of powers legal experts argue that he does not have the right to suspend funding that ha
And in the planning phase yes different numbers would suggest a different strategy balanced by your point people on mobile and not only people mobile you could create a you know unintended consequences. A White House Correspondent can be how could how small and usually these protests seem to have a bit of a partisan bent they were seemed to be trouble supporters who were targeting democratic governors but the protests are continuing to expand and now were seeing not only popping up in maryland which just has a democratic governor but also in texas that has a republican governor and the overarching message from these protesters seems to be very similar essentially their feeling that these stay at home orders by their governors have been too arbitrary and in fact maybe overarching the other big argument in all of this is that the economic social and educational shutdowns have essentially done more harm than good yes well lives may have been saved other people are feeling significant cost
Accuracy and transparency of these government figures especially given that this number the National Toll a total for kovan 1000. 00 cases now is 8260902 of course that is significant but its still much lower than what were seeing in other countries such as the u. S. Or in europe President Donald Trump has unveiled guidelines to reopen the u. S. Economy as it continues to reel from the coronavirus pandemic but its up to governors to decide when to ease knockdowns in the states Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called the guidelines vague and inconsistent and says more coronavirus testing needs to be done 22000000. 00 americans have made claims for Unemployment Benefits over the last month. And an investigation is underway in the u. S. State of new jersey after at least 17 bodies were found in a makeshift mall that an elderly peoples home 60 people recently died at the facility half of them tested positive for colvin 19 the discovery has raised concerns about the number of virus
Ministers but the Prime Minister took all the major decisions i think anyone. Considered happened to the point is just a little while ago new pekin say that the press some throwing heart and soul into fighting face. Singapore now as a journalist and bestselling author whos written a biography of Prime Minister Barak Johnson she says the johnson was too focused on celebrating brags that at a time when he should have been preparing to fight the outbreak. I used to be his deputy many years ago and we were both journalists and he went in brussels for the day telegraph was an officer to i got to know him very well i still then i written about him over many many years now that he simply doesnt have to qualities to be. Take early and its time like this is a Global Pandemic and the sunday times report today which seems extremely well researched well written and and accurate portrays that with devastating and hugely alarming impacts the fact is i think it is possible that person some will now g