Boris Johnson admits he 'could have done things differently' at start of pandemic

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coronavirus pandemic. In an interview with BBC News, on the day he celebrates one year as prime minister, Mr Johnson said his government did not understand Covid-19 sufficiently in the 'first few weeks and months'.“Maybe there were things we could have done differently and of course there will be time to understand what exactly we could have done, or done differently," he said.Mr Johnson told the BBC that there was not enough understanding around how the virus spread early on in the pandemic."I think probably, the single thing that we didn’t see at the beginning was the extent to which it was being transmitted asymptomatically from person to person," he said.“I think it’s fair to say that there are things that we need to learn about how we.