So far, more than 12,868 people with COVID-19 have died in British hospitals, though new official data indicates the true death toll could be much larger.
LONDON - Britain's coronavirus outbreak is probably peaking, but it is too early to start relaxing restrictions, officials said as critics warned that the country may end up with the worst death rate in Europe due to government failings.
"We are not yet at the point where we can say confidently and safely 'this is now past the peak and we can start thinking very much now about the next phases.'" But Johnson had initially refrained from approving the stringent controls that other European leaders imposed. He later closed down the country when projections showed a quarter of a million people could die in the United Kingdom.
"I did think the government was going too slowly," Starmer said."We will have to look back in due course." Starmer, a 57-year-old former prosecutor who won the Labour Party leadership earlier this month, also called on the government to publish its exit strategy from lockdown restrictions. Several European countries have announced plans or already begun to relax restrictions, balancing the risk of reversing gains against further damage to battered economies.
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