22 days in April: the darkest hours of the UK coronavirus crisis
A look back at the devastating weeks when Boris Johnson went into intensive care and the daily death toll passed 1,000 UK ministers accused of downplaying Covid-19 peakEight of the lives lost on UK’s worst day of pandemic
With the prime minister struggling to breathe, the Queen on TV comparing the crisis to the second world war and Dominic Cummings in County Durham despite the lockdown, Easter week found Britain on the back foot against coronavirus.
The death toll was not far from double the usual rate and we now know it was the peak of a devastating 22 days in April in which more than 1,000 people in the UK died from Covid-19 every day.
That didn’t stop Boris Johnson’s “designated survivor”, Dominic Raab, trying to reassure an anxious nation with news the PM was still in
