‘Complacent’ UK draws global criticism for Covid-19 response
Opinion writers from Italy to Australia attack ‘stupidity’ and label Boris Johnson incompetent
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From Italy to Australia, critics have accused a “complacent” British government of “massively underestimating” the gravity of the coronavirus crisis after the UK reported the highest death toll in Europe.
While Rai Uno, the Italian state broadcaster’s flagship channel, gave prominent play to the news that Britain had recorded “more than 32,000 deaths, the highest total in Europe exceeding even Italy”, the Corriere della Serra daily went a good way further.
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