Source · Select Committees · Science and Technology Committee (Commons)
Recommendation 88
88
This was not the only way to proceed, and indeed the UK was an outlier...
Conclusion
This was not the only way to proceed, and indeed the UK was an outlier internationally in the gradualist approach that was being taken before late March.120 Countries in East Asia were the first to experience covid-19. Their response was a much more rapid and muscular imposition of social distancing and requirements to isolate.121
Government Response
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