A surgeon who treats people in wars and disasters has warned that millions of people could die from COVID19 in low income countries
He said most vulnerable countries were places like Yemen, Chad, northern Syria and South Sudan.
Speaking on Sky, he added:"David Miliband, from the International Rescue Committee, did a survey very recently on 34 fragile countries using the same sort of modelling used by Imperial [College London].Dr Nott said IRC had estimated there will probably be between 1.7m and 3.2m deaths, which he said was likely"if we don't do something about it now".
The surgeon said:"There was a paper written by Dr Wu from China that came out in The Lancet on 30 January, really saying that this is going to be a pandemic and we really should be prepared for something dreadful. "I don't really think anyone took any notice of that, so for four weeks it was a time where we should probably have been prepared."Dr Nott's paper says people around the world, in poor countries, have a period of time where coronavirus will not affect them."We cannot wait for another four to five weeks because they will be in exactly the same position we have been in.
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