For Boris Johnson, the controversy is close
: even if his powerful advisor Dominic cummings has visibly breached containment slightly, police say he intends to focus on the new coronavirus and the announcement of relaxed restrictions early in the evening.
The Prime Minister British provided unwavering support for the controversial Dominic Cummings, the brain behind the Brexit campaign, since the scandal broke out last week, sparking a frenzy into his own conservative party, unusual for the leader triumphantly elected in December.
Durham police estimated on Thursday 28 that Dominic Cummings may have committed a sprain minor
containment rules, enacted March 23 to try to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.
Not by going to isolate himself with his sick wife and their four-year-old son, for whom the advisor had no childcare solution, at his parents’ home in this locality in the north of England. But on a trip on April 12 to Barnard Castle, about 40 miles from Durham – a drive justified as necessary by Cummings to ensure that his sight would allow him to drive to London.
Prime Minister said he believes Mr. Cummings acted responsibly and lawfully given the circumstances, and considers the matter closed
said a spokesman for Boris Johnson.
Already the day before, attacked head-on by deputies, the Prime Minister had estimated that it was time to move on
.
Even if the investigators decided not to impose a sanction on Dominic Cummings, their conclusions give water to the mill of those who demand his departure, in the opposition as in the Conservative majority.
Labor opposition leader Keir Starmer, interviewed on the BBC, says Boris Johnson’s support for his adviser is an admission of weakness
and risks undermining British compliance with the rules.
Contact tracing
This case embarrasses all the more Boris Johnson, already subject to sharp criticism on his management of the health crisis, that it partially eclipses the announcement that he must make, in the evening, on the continuation of the deconfinement in England , where people are already allowed to go to work or go on excursions.
The government must this time give the final green light to the reopening next week of certain kindergarten and primary classes. The stores not essential
, for example selling clothes, books or toys, should reopen in mid-June.
Determining to accompany this new stage and to avoid a new uncontrolled wave of contaminations, a device for tracing the contacts of patients was launched Thursday in England.
From Thursday, anyone tested positive for the new coronavirus will now have to communicate their recent interactions to dedicated teams from the public health service.
Those with whom this patient has come into contact, within two meters and for at least 15 minutes, must isolate themselves for 14 days, whether or not they show symptoms. Some 25,000 people have been hired to find them.
Like deconfinement, tracing systems are deployed in dispersed order in the nations of the United Kingdom, because they fall under the competence of each of them.
Northern Ireland already has a similar tracking system, and Wales is in the process of doing so.
Scotland also launched its own on Thursday, alongside the announcement of a first relaxation of containment.
The United Kingdom is the second most bereaved country in the world by Covid-19 disease, with more than 37,000 deaths officially tested positive and even, according to a Financial Times analysis, the first in terms of excess mortality compared to its population.
The tracking system launched in England should work in parallel with a mobile application, which is still in the testing phase.
In order to ensure the success of this device, the British Minister for Health Matt Hancock called on everyone to carry out their civic duty
, explaining that there were between 5,000 and 7,000 undetected cases of Covid-19 in the population.
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