UK coronavirus death toll rises to 21
It comes as it was revealed a newborn baby had become one of the youngest in the world to test positive for the virus.
Mr Johnson this week announced only the most serious ill will be tested for coronavirus, while others exhibiting symptoms were told to self-isolate. And in a thinly-veiled swipe, WHO's director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned every case needed to be tested and treated to "break the chains"."Find, isolate, test and treat every case to break the chains of Covid transmission. Every case we find and treat limits the expansion of the disease.
"Do not just let this fire burn. Any country that looks at the experience of other countries with large epidemics and thinks 'that won't happen to us' is making a deadly mistake."Yet Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said it was wrong to implement knee-jerk measures “that seem instantly attractive”.
Sir Patrick said if 60 per cent of healthy Brits catch coronavirus, it will help protect the most vulnerable by creating “herd immunity”.The contagion would otherwise return next winter, when the NHS is ill-equipped to cope.Meanwhile in the US, Donald Trump has launched coronavirus testing centres at local supermarkets and car parks.
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