As the United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll approaches 100,000, Home Secretary Priti Patel said Wednesday that the numbers were horrendous but that it was not the time to look back at the government's possible mismanagement of the crisis.
The United Kingdom's official COVID-19 death toll is 91,470 — Europe's worst death figure and the world's fifth worst after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been criticized for reacting too slowly to the crisis, failing to supply sufficient protective equipment and for bungling the testing system though the United Kingdom has been swift to roll out a vaccine.