Enforcing the first Covid lockdown a week earlier could have halved the time the country spent at home and resulted in 34,000 fewer deaths, a study has suggested.
Researchers from the University of Leeds and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine modelled the timing of the lockdown, which started on March 23, 2020, and its effect on virus cases and deaths in England.
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