He was pressed on the issue after Professor Neil Ferguson said that the UK's death toll could have been halved if the country locked down a week earlier.
‘All I can say is that it’s too early to judge ourselves, we simply don’t know the answer to a lot of these questions but we know a lot more now than we did in January, February, or even March. One thing we do know about tackling coronavirus is that you have to proceed with caution.’supports HTML5 video
Chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance added: ‘The general point is should we go back and look carefully at the phasing of the measures, the different groups of measures, which one made the biggest impact and can we see in retrospect which ones are most import, that’s going to be important in judging the future should this happen again in the winter.
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