UK 'past peak' of coronavirus outbreak: PM Johnson COVID19
LONDON - Britain is "past the peak" of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, despite recording another 674 deaths in the last 24 hours.
"We are coming through the peak or rather we are coming over what could have been a vast peak, as though we have been going through some huge Alpine tunnel. A review is due on May 7 and he said a "roadmap" would be published next week about the government's plan to ease restrictions, after concerns about the economic effect of the social distancing measures.
Keir Starmer, the new leader of the opposition Labour Party, told Sky News he feared the UK was on track to have one of the worst death rates in Europe."What you're going to get next week is really a roadmap, a menu of options, the dates and times of each individual measure will be very much driven by where we are in the epidemic," Johnson said."But it's actually vital, if we're to bounce back as strongly as I think we can, that we don't have a second bout of this.
Britain saw a sharp spike in its death toll on Wednesday after including out-of-hospital deaths for the first time, though Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty advised against drawing international comparisons until the pandemic was over. He said he had a "much happier" hospital visit on Wednesday for the birth of his baby boy with partner Carrie Symonds.
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