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As the United Kingdom’s Covid-19 death toll approaches 100,000, grief-stricken relatives of the dead express anger at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the worst public health crisis in a century, Reuters reports.
With 97,939 deaths, the United Kingdom has the world’s fifth worst official death toll — more than its civilian death toll in World War Two and twice the number killed in the 1940-41 Blitz bombing campaign. Behind the numbers there is grief and anger.
Some scientists and opposition politicians say Johnson acted too slowly to stop the spread of the virus and then bungled both the government’s strategy and execution of its response.
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