UK’s coronavirus outbreak is ‘starting to slow’ but deaths will keep rising, says government expert Neil Ferguson as he suggests up to 2million people might already have been infected

The UK’s coronavirus outbreak looks to be slowing down, one of the government’s top experts said today. Professor Neil Ferguson said he had detected ‘early signs’ that the spread was being curbed by lockdown, with the rate of increase in hospital admissions easing. But Professor Ferguson – one of the authors of an Imperial College London report that convinced the Government to tighten up its efforts to stop the virus – warned deaths are still likely to rise sharply as they lag two or three weeks behind the new infections.  He also suggested that up to three per cent of the UK – around two million people – might already have been infected, and possibly as high as five per cent in London. The slight glimmer of optimism emerged after Boris Johnson delivered a rallying cry for Britain to work together, thanking everyone who was contributing in a video from his quarantine bunker in Downing Street.  But deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has warned that Britons should not expect a return to ‘normal life’ for six months, and possibly longer. A Nobel Prize-winning scientist from Stanford University today also claimed that the coronavirus outbreaks in New York City and Italy were… Read full this story

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