Boris Johnson tars vaccination triumph with hotel quarantine quagmire
The former journalist-turned-PM faces two deadlines on February 15. He’s approaching one of them with flair, with the other he’s flailing.
London | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson should be celebrating this weekend. After a year of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in a manner generally seen as careening between indifference, indecision and incompetence, he really has something to crow about.
He had set a target of vaccinating about 15 million people by February 15 – a stretchy target for a government that had struggled for months with test and trace, and with lockdown timing and enforcement. But he’s disproved the doubters.
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