Doctors warn local coronavirus outbreaks like Leicester will spiral quickly unless data examined quicker
after a worrying spike saw Public Health England identify 2,987 cases, accounting for ten per cent of all cases in the UK.Now the BMA are calling for "timely, comprehensive and reliable information" to be shared with all those involved in the management of new cases at a local level.
, who used to advise the Government, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's inevitable we will , we are relaxing lockdown rules and that means that contacts in the population are going up and that's a very variable process." He said: “We've seen the epidemic is focal, which is often the case, it's not the same in all places.
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