The UK government is coming under enormous pressure for its handling of the coronavirus epidemic in the country.
There is mounting anger around the country about the lack of testing taking place - particularly for frontline NHS staff - as well as problems getting Personal Protective Equipment to those who are putting their lives on the line trying to keep others alive.
And in a new poll released today, it seems the British public is coming round to the idea that Boris Johnson's ordering of a lockdown in the country came too late - and could have cost many lives.
The IPSOS Mori poll showed that 56% of people believe the March 23 lockdown announcement should have come earlier.
As the death toll from Covid-19 continues to surge in the country, many are questioning why it took the government so long to take action - particularly when the warning signs from Italy and Spain were plain to see.
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Health workers in Italy's worst affected Lombardy region, who were witnessing harrowing scenes and soaring death numbers, had issued warnings to the UK and other countries about the need for action in early March.
And yet the government failed to act and allowed large-scale public events to continue to take place - including Cheltenham Festival, where 250,000 people gathered between March 10 and 13.
Some staff members working at the festival have since revealed they had coronavirus symptoms and many others believe they caught the virus at the festival, but they continued as normal because that was the law of the land at the time.
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On March 11, then-current government guidance encouraged 3,000 Atletico Madrid fans to travel from the Spanish capital to Liverpool to mingle in the city's bars before packing into a full Anfield.
There was an acute outbreak of coronavirus in Madrid at the time and Atletico fans were actually unable to watch their side play at their home ground, but the Anfield fixture went ahead.
Speaking on Sky News in recent days, Italian Government scientific adviser Dr Walter Ricciardi said the UK should have looked at the example in his own country and taken the decision to lockdown the country at least 10 days earlier than it did.
He said the country will 'pay a price' for the timing of that decision.
And while the late lockdown decision is thought to be leading to a greater spread of the virus in the UK, a hugely criticised lack of testing in the country has surely exacerbated the problem.
More than three months after coronavirus first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan and despite the terrifying spread of the virus in countries like Italy and Spain in the subsequent months - the government is still way behind in terms of the testing capacity needed to get a hold of this virus.
While the UK is still struggling to get up to 10,000 tests a day, Germany is managing 50,000 every day and working to scale that up.
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The biggest scandal of the testing failures concerns frontline NHS staff.
The latest statistics show that just 2,000 of around 500,000 staff members working on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19 have been tested.
This has left staff terrified for their own safety, for the safety of patients they fear they may pass the virus too - and has left the NHS without many key staff members who feel their only option is to isolate at home.
For those on the frontline, it is not just a lack of testing leaving them in peril - but a lack of protective equipment to shield them from the virus.
Many of the brave men and women, doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, porters and cleaners who are heading into hospitals each day to try and keep others alive are doing so without the necessary protective equipment to stay safe while they work.
In some areas NHS staff are making improvised masks from snorkels or using school science goggles to try and protect themselves in desperate bids to protect themselves from exposure to this virus.
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Sadly we are now seeing a steady stream of deaths of doctors and nurses working on the NHS frontline.
One of those who gave his life was father-of-seven Thomas Harvey, an NHS nurse for 20 years at Goodmayes Hospital in London who had recently treated a patient who had tested positive for coronavirus.
He had expressed serious concerns to his family about the lack of protective equipment he and his colleagues were working with, stating that all he had was a 'flimsy apron and no mask.'
His family and others affected are understandably furious that their selfless loved ones were sent in to the horror of battle against this deadly disease without anything to protect themselves.
The NHS says it is now sending millions more pieces of protective kit to the front line, but those grieving families will rightly ask why this didn't happen sooner.
As we await another grim update on the numbers who have perished from this awful disease today, it is becoming clearer that in these vital three areas, the government has got it wrong.
Our only hope is that rapid and sudden improvements in areas like testing and providing the right equipment to those working on the front line will start to mitigate an increasingly horrific situation.