‘Hapless’ Boris Johnson gets number of daily Covid cases wrong by 700,000
The Metro says Boris Johnson likely aimed to provide some reassurance to people that he had a handle on the coronavirus crisis during his press conference this evening.
It has been a dismal week for the government, which faced a large rebellion on Covid passes last night as well as headlines about alleged rule-breaking parties held by the Tories last year.
But unfortunately, he ended up mixing up a crucial number on cases, claiming that there had been almost a million new coronavirus infections today.
He told the nation that there had been 780,000 new cases – clearly an alarming figure.
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