May 12: UK, US, Brazil: how leaders failed Covid-19 test

Even though Covid-19 was raging in Europe, Boris Johnson on March 7 boasted of shaking hands with virus patients, and March 10-13 he did nothing to stop a quarter of a million people attending the Cheltenham horse racing festival.

Even though the US reported its first Covid-19 case on January 20, Donald Trump not only took 6 weeks to begin fighting the virus; for some time he even described Covid-19 reports as "fake news".

Even though Covid-19 had claimed thousands of lives in his country, Brazil's President Bolsonaro just said "So what?"

No wonder that the US has the greatest number of Covid-19 deaths in the world, the UK the greatest number in Europe and Brazil the greatest number in South America.