Research suggests that each person infected with COVID-19 will infect just 0.62 other people - crucial to eradicating the virus.
The UK's social distancing measures are working and mean coronavirus now"has nowhere to go and will burn out", a former World Health Organization director has said.would infect 2.6 other people, research conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine revealed that number has fallen to 0.62., and Professor Karol Sikora suggested the new study showed the nationwide lockdown was on the way to halting its spread."It has nowhere to go and will burn out.
Good news."Experts suggest the virus's peak in the country will occur between 6 April and 30 April, ahead of a likely second wave when social distancing measures are relaxed.
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