A SCIENTIFIC expert has said the peak of the UK coronavirus pandemic was on April 8, as calls mount for the government to set out its strategy to ease the lockdown. France, Spain and Greece plan to…
A SCIENTIFIC expert has said the peak of the UK coronavirus pandemic was on April 8, as calls mount for the government to set out its strategy to ease the lockdown.
Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, saidwere at their highest in mid-March - 21 days before Britain recorded its worst daily death rate on April 8. His comments were made before the government announced an additional 828 deaths in UK hospitals yesterday, taking the total deaths to 17,337.Dr Heneghan believes the peak of Covid-19 infections happened a week before the lockdown started on March 23.
"Fifty per cent reductions in infections occurred on March 16, right when hand washing and social distancing was introduced.
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