‘In 12 weeks we can turn the tide’: now we can ask – was Boris Johnson right?

Coronavirus deaths and infections are dropping, but experts fear lockdown is being eased too soon

On 19 March, just a few days before he self-isolated with Covid-19, a sunken-eyed Boris Johnson told the daily Downing Street briefing that in 12 weeks “we can turn the tide”. “I am absolutely confident that we can send coronavirus packing,” he said. 

On Thursday those 12 weeks are up – and they have seen the country go through turmoil.

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