The rupture in the consensus for tackling coronavirus began a month ago as Boris Johnson tried to placate lockdown sceptics
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“The base will not be sufficient.”
With owlish understatement, the chief medical officer for England, Chris Whitty, made clear that Boris Johnson’s three-tier local lockdowns, which the prime minister had just set out alongside him in Downing Street, would not curb the second wave of coronavirus crashing over England.
