A RISE in car use during the lockdown by fed-up Brits is “troubling”, a government scientist has said tonight. Deputy chief scientific adviser Dame Angela McLean warned the number of mo…
A RISE in car use during the lockdown by fed-up Brits is "troubling", a government scientist has said tonight.
"I think all of us remember that what we've done together which is to stay home has worked to protect the NHS and save lives and as one of the people who looks at this data and thinks about how it fits into how we think about the future it does trouble me that the dark blue line [use of motor vehicles] is creeping up again."
Coronavirus was recorded on 29,648 death certificates in England and Wales up to April 24, the Office of National Statistics revealed today. If that figure is under-reported by the same level, it could mean more than 36,000 have died of coronavirus in Britain already. Meanwhile the Sun revealed radical measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus could be in place for up to a year.
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