Boris Johnson insists UK won't need another national lockdown despite experts warning of second wave

Prime minister describes blanket restrictions as a ‘nuclear deterrent’

that a second wave in winter could be worse than that seen in March and April, with a “reasonable worst case scenario” of up to 120,000 extra hospital deaths.has also consistently warned that Britain would have to live with the virus and measures such as social distancing and quarantine for “a long period of time”.

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