LONDON, April 25 ― The death toll in Britain from the coronavirus outbreak neared 20,000 yesterday as the government faced calls for greater transparency for its exit strategy from stringent social distancing measures. The health ministry said 684 more people had died in the 24-hour period to...
Pictures and names of people who died during the lockdown, hang on crosses in a remembrance garden near a church, during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Burton, in Staffordshire, Britain April 24, 2020. ― Reuters pic
The figure is more than the 616 reported the previous day and comes after the government claimed the virus had hit its peak and was trending downwards. A review of the restrictions is due on May 7 but the government is coming under pressure to reveal its plans for lifting the measures. Meanwhile, a new website to offer testing for up to 10 million key workers and their families was overwhelmed yesterday, the government said.
Hancock has set a target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, while contact tracing ― abandoned as the outbreak took hold rapidly in the UK ― will be restarted to give a more complete picture of the virus' spread.Chief medical officer Chris Whitty told a parliamentary committee that stopping the contact tracing was the right decision because of limitations in resources.
US President Donald Trump described Johnson as being full of “tremendous energy” when he spoke to him by phone this week.
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