'Too early' to lift UK lockdown but COVID19 outbreak peaking, minister says
LONDON: The United Kingdom's novel coronavirus outbreak is starting to peak but it is too early to lift the lockdown because the virus would"run rampant" if the governmentThe United Kingdom has the fifth highest official death toll from COVID-19 in the world, after the United States, Italy, Spain and France, though the figure only covers hospital fatalities and the real number is probably much higher."We think it is too early to make a change," Hancock said.
While Prime Minister Boris Johnson recuperates at a country residence from COVID-19 complications that nearly cost him his life, the British government is due to discuss a review of the lockdown later on Thursday. The most stringent restrictions in British peacetime history have effectively closed down much of the world economy, and the United Kingdom is heading towards its deepest depression in three centuries.
Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London who advises the government, said Britain would probably have to maintain some level of social distancing until a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is available.
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