US President Donald Trump claims the British government’s initial strategy would have been ‘very catastrophic’.
Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Donald Trump explains that the UK, ‘were very much looking at it. And all of a sudden they went hard the other way because they started seeing things that weren’t good.’
Although, he does not mention the strategy, Mr Trump may have been speaking about the original plan to build a ‘herd immunity’ suggested by Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, before imposing a national lockdown.
Read more about about Donald Trump’s claims about the British government ‘putting themselves in a little bit of a problem’ over its original plan to tackle coronavirus:
‘Boris (Johnson) tested positive, and I hear he’s I hope he’s gonna be fine. But in the UK, they were looking at that and they have a name for it. But we won’t even call but we won’t even go by the name. But it would have been, it would have been very catastrophic, I think if that would have happened,’ he adds.
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