sir patrick vallance. england, wales, scotland and northern ireland all entered lockdown together in march. there was much talk of a four nations approach. but, with different parties in charge of the lockdown rules in the four different nations, the uk began to look like a federal state. some of the issues were familiar, wherever you live. in scotland, more people died from the virus in care homes than in hospitals. mistakes were made at the start, and they have led to the excess deaths we see today. first minister, in light of the tragedy in uddingston and others, do you agree that when it comes to testing in care homes that by any standards, this is a failure? first minister. no, i don't. let me say, i'm not even speaking as first minister here, i'm speaking as a human being. i deeply regret every single death from this virus, and i think all of us are in that position. but i also know, and i said, i think the very first time i stood in this chamber and talked about what we were dealing with,

sir patrick vallance.in march. there was much talk of a four nations approach. but, with different parties in charge of the lockdown rules in the four different nations, the uk began to look like a federal state. some of the issues were familiar, wherever you live. in scotland, more people died from the virus in care homes than in hospitals. mistakes were made at the start, and they have led to the excess deaths we see today. first minister, in light of the tragedy in uddingston and others, do you agree that when it comes to testing in care homes that by any standards, this is a failure? first minister. no, i don't. let me say, i'm not even speaking as first minister here, i'm speaking as a human being. i deeply regret every single death from this virus, and i think all of us are in that position. but i also know, and i said, i think the very first time i stood in this chamber and talked about what we were dealing with, i said that mistakes would be made. i said i would make mistakes, the government would

byjuly, patrick vallance admitted things could have gone better.mic is not the most in the world, back and put it that way. in your role, have you begun to think about what might be the reasons for that. yes, we think about that a lot and clearly there are things that we do as we go along to learn what is going on and we are in regular contact with many international partners. i think it is very difficult to know exactly where we stand at the moment. it is clear that the outcome has not been good in the uk. england, wales, scotland and northern ireland, all ended lockdown together in march. there was much talk about a four nations approach but with different parties in charge of the lockdown rules in the four different nations, the uk began to look like a federal state. some of the issues were familiar, wherever you live. in scotland, more people died from the virus in care homes that in hospitals. mistakes were made at the start and they have led to the excess deaths that we see today. first minister, in light of the tragedy, you agree that when i

then you've got the immune system, which i think patrick vallance said this on that same podcast. system and a vial is therapeutic antibodies, antibodies that have been made so you can have a straight response to the virus. they seem to be having a tough time enrolling patients again. everyone is scrabbling for patients now. that is going to be an interest -- everyone is scrambling for patients now, and this could affect the new vaccines that they will start enrolling patients, whether they will be able to better once you have results for existing vaccines. francine: sam, thank you so much. sam fazeli, bloomberg director of research. coming up, russia is robbing alexanderupport lukashenko. we will be live from moscow next. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: economics, finance, politics. this is "bloomberg surveillance." i'm francine lacqua, here in london. hundreds of thousands of people rallied over the weekend, demonstrating disputed election results as alexander lukashenko returns to power. they are now demanding his immediate resignation. the call with the belarus reader -- with t

, including evidence from the case, including evidence from the chief scientific adviser sir patrick vallanceeople contracted covid—19 as a result and we think it is really important that lessons are learned from what went wrong so that we don't make the same mistakes again. the government says that by march 13 there was already sustained community transmission, a significant number of domestic cases, and therefore, there was a marginal impact on border restrictions and in any case it was superseded by national stay at home guidance once you had any symptoms. there is a couple of points there. first of all, we still had in the third week of march over1 million people arrived in the uk, in the fourth week over 500,000 people arrived in the uk, and we saw the evidence from a detailed genomics scientific study on the thousands of people who were coming into the uk with covid—19 at that time of the chief scientific adviser himself said it was the very many different strains of the virus which is what accelerated the pandemic. and even just two days after the government lifted all of its self—isol