Britain 'waited until 1.5m infected with coronavirus before lockdown' as experts claim 'dithering' wasted 22 days
Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific officer, claims crowds "don't make much difference" to stopping the spread of the deadly bugNew daily cases: 26,661
Boris Johnson calls pandemic "the worst public health crisis for a generation" as ten deaths are recoredVallance says that the government's strategy had been based on building up "some degree of herd immunity"Ireland closes all pubs, bars and hotelsVallance says that if the UK deathtoll stays below 20,000 it will be a "good outcome"Schools are closed indefeinitely and all puvs, restaurants, cinemas and gyms are told to shutThree days later, France and Spain...
By then, there were 1.5million cases overall, with the number of new cases estimated in one day to have hit 286,000. The UK death toll now sits at more than 36,000 with more than 257,000 cases according to government figures.warned the true number of fatalities across the UK could be more than 44,000.Worryingly, the London School for Economics has previously estimated the death toll in care homes could be as high as 22,000.Guidance will be issued to shops and attractions that will resume business in step two of his road map back to “near-normal”, starting on June 1.
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