BREAKING: UK will see 20,000 coronavirus deaths in ‘best case scenario’
Britons have been urged to stay away from pubs, clubs and theatres to stem the spread of Covid-19 would be a ‘good outcome’ in such terrible circumstances.
He added: ‘Having spent 20 years as an NHS consultant as well as an academic I know exactly what that looks and feels like… I don’t think any of us have seen anything like this. This is the first in not just a generation but potentially the first for 100 years.’supports HTML5 video Sir Patrick said it was a ‘semantic difference’ to argue whether the UK had shifted from a process of delaying and mitigating the spread of Covid-19 to an attempt to suppress it.Today the official number of people officially diagnosed with the deadly airborne virus in the UK reached 1,950, although experts expect the real figure to be significantly higher.
Even with current precautions, Sir Patrick said the ‘best case scenario’ could still see 20,000 deaths in total.
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