“The message from UK business is: ‘Do more’” Adam Marshall calls on government and financial institutions to help ensure UK businesses don’t face huge upfront costs in the coming months amid the coronavirus pandemic. More on COVID19:
Sky News understands the government shifted to tougher measures on Monday partly as a result of the document produced by the team at Imperial.
Such measures will need to be maintained until a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available - a period of potentially 18 months or more, the team said. In their examination of the"most effective mitigation strategy", they concluded:"The surge limits for both general ward and ICU [intensive care unit] beds would be exceeded by at least eightfold under the more optimistic scenario for critical care requirements that we examined.
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