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From your comments, I'd almost believe the government were doing well, rather than overtaking Italy in deaths per day at this point on the curve:

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

All the reports you've mentioned are also echoed throughout the UK press.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/02/shambles-cha...

Even the Telegraph - a massively pro Tory paper that has had Boris Johnson as a writer - is ripping into the government over its testing.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/02/thursday-morning...

> Almost no countries in the world have enough tests to systematically test their medical staff.

Key word that... 'almost.'