Boris Johnson said the “biggest false assumption” during the pandemic was over asymptomatic transmission and said that no “previous government” had envisioned such a novel disease.He told the Downing Street press conference: “In retrospect there are probably many things that we wish that we’d known and many things that we wish we’d done differently at the time, in retrospect, because we were fighting a novel disease under very different circumstances than any previous government had imagined.
