Warning '1m Brits will have coronavirus by next week - but we won't know who'
His comments come after Prime Minister Boris Johnson last night ordered a three-week lockdown of the UK in a bid to tackle the coronavirus "national emergency".
"But testing and contact tracing to break the chain of transmission is every bit as important if not more important."Taiwan introduced temperature scanning in malls and office buildings but kept shops and restaurants open, they’ve had just two deaths."But ten days ago in this country we went in the opposite direction and stopped testing in the community.
Mr Hunt also warned that it "may be too late" to avoid Britain becoming like Italy, which has suffered one of the worst outbreaks."That then changed to three weeks behind Italy and today our mortality rates are two weeks behind Italy."We've had a critical incident at one, others say they're running out of ICU [Intensive Care Unit] beds.
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