Johnson defends his response to coronavirus crisis as death toll passes 50,000

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The UK’s coronavirus death toll passed 50&comma;000 as Boris Johnson was accused of presiding over a government that lacked the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;trust and confidence” of the British people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At a fractious Prime Minister’s Questions Mr Johnson clashed with Labour leader Keir Starmer about his approach to easing the lockdown and reopening England’s schools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The British Prime Minister defended NHS England’s test and trace system – one of the key measures introduced to help the return to something approaching normality – but promised to increase the speed with which concerned people get the results of coronavirus tests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Commons clashes came as the grim milestone of 50&comma;000 deaths linked to Covid-19 was passed&comma; according to analysis of official figures by the PA news agency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Johnson defended his handling of the crisis&comma; telling MPs&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>I take full responsibility for everything this government has been doing in tackling coronavirus and I’m very proud of our record&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Starmer said there had been a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>loss of trust<&sol;i>” in Mr Johnson’s administration and claimed the Prime Minister had refused an offer to work together on building a consensus on the reopening of England’s schools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Johnson said Mr Starmer had not offered &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>any dissent<&sol;i>” during a private phone call about the government’s approach and questioned the purpose of his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>endless attacks<&sol;i>” on the official response to the crisis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In response to claims that the test and trace system was weeks away from being fully operational&comma; Mr Johnson said it was working – but stopped short of giving figures to back up his claim&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>thousands<&sol;i>” of contacts of people who had tested positive for coronavirus had been traced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In response to pressure from former health secretary Jeremy Hunt&comma; Mr Johnson set a target of test results being turned around in 24 hours by the end of the month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some 90&percnt; of tests are returned within 48 hours and Mr Johnson said that he would get &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>all tests turned around in 24 hours by the end of June<&sol;i>” apart from instances where there were postal or other problems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The speed of getting results is critical to the operation of the test and trace system&comma; which relies on identifying people who have been in contact with a positive case and getting them to self-isolate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed12029cba2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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