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Boris Johnson was accused of "giving in to scientific advisers" by a former leader of his Conservative Party after the UK Prime Minister announced a lockdown for England following weeks of warnings from the experts.
His Saturday announcement of a strict national lockdown against the spread of coronavirus came after UK cases passed one million and its death toll reached 46,555.
The infection rate in the country has been rising steeply for weeks. The Office for National Statistics now estimates that 1 in 100 people in England have Covid-19, compared with 1 in 2,300 in July and 1 in 200 at the start of October.
Johnson's cabinet was advised that if no action was taken, the National Health Service's bed capacity would be surpassed by the first week of December.
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith wrote in the UK's Telegraph newspaper that the month-long lockdown showed government was "giving in to the scientific advisers," claiming that government experts had "pressurised" Johnson into the step.
"Normally, advisers advise and ministers decide. Yet that system has broken down with Sage [the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] believing its advice to be more like commandments written on stone and its members publicly lecturing the Government over the airways," Duncan Smith wrote.
Many others believe the lockdown has come too late. Sage first suggested stronger restrictions six weeks ago, when it called for a short "circuit-breaker" lockdown to bring case numbers down.
The group said in a document released on September 21 that "a package of interventions will need to be adopted to prevent this exponential rise in cases," including the closure of bars, restaurants and gyms.
There were 28 confirmed deaths and 5,596 cases in the UK on September 21, compared with 326 deaths and 21,915 cases on Saturday.
The new lockdown, which will come into place in England on Thursday morning following a Wednesday vote in Parliament, will see all bars and restaurants closed except for takeout and delivery, as well as the closure of all non-essential businesses including gyms and hair salons. Schools, universities and childcare facilities will remain open.
Residents will only be allowed to leave their homes for specific purposes including education, work (if they cannot work from home), exercise, medical issues, or to buy food and essential items.
UK Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove said Sunday that England's second lockdown could be extended beyond December 2 -- the point at which the Prime Minister said he expected the current regional tiered system to be reintroduced.
"We are going to look at all of the data, we've got this four-week period during which we are going to review progress, but of course we'll always be driven by the data," Gove said on Sky News.
Gove said ministers would review lockdown measures on December 2, with the aim of seeing the R (reproduction) rate -- the number of people that one infected person will infect -- fall below 1.
Opposition Leader Keir Starmer said the lockdown should have been imposed three weeks ago and would now have to go on for longer.
"I'm so frustrated at the incompetence of the government," the Labour party leader told the BBC's Andrew Marr. "The government was too slow in the first phase of the pandemic and now it's been too slow again, and there's a cost to this. That's why the lockdown will now go on longer."
Gove told the BBC that he did not accept that the government had got it wrong and waited too long. "The advice we were getting at the time indicated that a regional approach was entirely appropriate," he said on The Andrew Marr Show.
He added that the UK's deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van Tam had believed the localized approach was appropriate and the chief medical officer Chris Whitty had said on Saturday that there was no perfect time to act.
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