UK Covid-19 death figures

[Harry Paget Flashman]

When the lockdown was introduced on 23 March it was UK wide, which is why I said that all parties must have agreed to it. The messages were simple....Stay at home except for ....shopping for essentials etc etc. After that initial blanket directive tweaks and differences occurred through each of the home countries as you said.

The UK Govt were too slow to act.

They introduced COVID19 legislation on the 10th February but we never went into lockdown for over a month after that. If that had acted sooner many lives would have been saved.

As for the Public Health Act 1984 there's a few issues with that:

1. It doesn't apply in Scotland and NI.
2. It acts as a vehicle for the Sec of State to make regulations such as those passed this year to halt the Coronavirus outbreak. It alone does not provide powers for authorities to do what they've done since the regulations were passed in March.

[lisvaneblue]

The UK Govt were too slow to act.

They introduced COVID19 legislation on the 10th February but we never went into lockdown for over a month after that. If that had acted sooner many lives would have been saved.

As for the Public Health Act 1984 there's a few issues with that:

1. It doesn't apply in Scotland and NI.
2. It acts as a vehicle for the Sec of State to make regulations such as those passed this year to halt the Coronavirus outbreak. It alone does not provide powers for authorities to do what they've done since the regulations were passed in March.

Covid Act 2020 became law 25 March

Public Health 1984 act applied Wales and England, so Wales could use it any time. Other home countries accomodated by the Covid Act. Its an act in its own right, and a powerful at that.