{"id":115815,"date":"2021-03-07T00:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T00:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=115815"},"modified":"2021-03-07T00:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T00:26:59","slug":"families-of-covid-victims-set-to-sue-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/families-of-covid-victims-set-to-sue-boris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of Covid victims set to sue Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Families of Covid victims set to sue Boris Johnson as calls mount for the Prime Minister to hold an immediate public inquiry into the Government&#8217;s handling of the pandemic<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Britain&#8217;s death toll of 124,419 is the worst in Europe and\u00a0fifth-highest in the world<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK want to have Government inquiry\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Group lawyers Pete Weatherby QC and Elkan Albrahamson will write to ministers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Will tell them that a High Court judicial review is being pursued by the group\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boris Johnson is being sued by 2,000 families of loved ones who died of Covid-19 in a bid to force the Government to hold an inquiry into the UK&#8217;s death toll.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s death toll of\u00a0 124,419 is the worst in Europe and fifth-highest in the world, behind only the US, Brazil Mexico and India.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign group\u00a0Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK want to force the Government to hold a judge-led Statutory Public Inquiry into its handling of the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s lawyers Pete Weatherby QC and Elkan Albrahamson will write to ministers this month, informing them that a High Court judicial review is being pursued.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson has so far refused to hold a review into the Government&#8217;s pandemic response &#8211; instead insisting the Covid risk needs to be reduced further first.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers say countless Britons died needlessly due to Government failings, and an inquiry must be held as a matter of human rights, The Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>The group says it wants to prevent the UK&#8217;s high death toll from happening again, with its website reading: &#8216;Family members, and the country, deserve answers.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/03\/06\/23\/40130912-9334355-image-a-146_1615074685784.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson (pictured) is being sued by 2,000 families of loved ones who died of Covid-19 in a bid to force the Government to hold an inquiry into the UK&#8217;s death toll<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/03\/06\/23\/40121344-0-image-a-131_1615072922340.jpg\" height=\"380\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/03\/06\/23\/40121338-0-image-a-133_1615072925688.jpg\" height=\"380\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The campaign group&#8217;s website reads: &#8216;The UK Government&#8217;s actions have led to the highest death toll in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But this isn&#8217;t about statistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Every single one of the tens of thousands of deaths from Covid-19 recorded in the UK represents a living, breathing person, taken before their time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We can&#8217;t let this keep on happening.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The group says its &#8216;hard not to think that the Government would rather save its reputation than save lives&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>They say the inquiry must be independent from ministers so the &#8216;Government doesn&#8217;t get to mark its own homework&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In a positive sign that the UK&#8217;s latest Covid wave may be nearing an end, the country today recorded another 6,040 new coronavirus cases marking a 19 per cent drop in positive tests week-on-week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/03\/06\/23\/40084822-9334355-image-a-139_1615074663258.jpg\" height=\"381\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/03\/06\/23\/40121562-9334355-Under_current_plans_heavily_criticised_by_anti_lockdown_Tory_MPs-a-141_1615074665161.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Under current plans heavily criticised by anti-lockdown Tory MPs, England will have some lockdown restrictions in place until at least June 21. Pictured, Boris Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s death toll of 158 marks a drop of\u00a045 per cent on the 290 deaths recorded last Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Government data up to March 5 shows that of the 22,887,118 jabs given in the UK so far, 21,796,278 were first doses &#8211; a rise of 437,463 on the previous day &#8211; and 1,090,840 were second doses, an increase of 56,772.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, official statistics recorded 236 fatalities \u2013 down by a third week-on-week, with the Health Secretary boasting the decline was becoming &#8216;faster and faster&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hancock claimed the figures offered proof that the once &#8216;unbreakable&#8217; link between cases inevitably turning into deaths was &#8216;now breaking&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/03\/06\/23\/40084546-9334355-image-a-142_1615074673476.jpg\" height=\"649\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/03\/06\/23\/40082098-9334355-The_Office_for_National_Statistics_estimated_that_248_000_people-a-144_1615074676558.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics estimated that 248,000 people across England are infected with the coronavirus, down from 370,000 in its estimate last Friday<\/p>\n<p>He told a Downing Street press conference on Friday: &#8216;The vaccine is protecting the NHS, saving lives right across the country. The country&#8217;s plan is working.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two-fifths of adults have now had the vaccination &#8211; with one million people receiving both their first and second doses.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Secretary&#8217;s comments came after an array of official data revealed Covid cases are falling rapidly, fuelling calls for No10 to relax lockdown measures sooner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under current plans heavily criticised by anti-lockdown Tory MPs, England will have some lockdown restrictions in place until at least June 21.<\/p>\n<p>Recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show England&#8217;s outbreak shrank by a third in the week to February 26, with 248,000 people infected \u2013 the equivalent of one in every 220 people.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9334355\/Families-Covid-victims-set-sue-Boris-Johnson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families of Covid victims set to sue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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