UK deaths from coronavirus could reach as many as 1,000 per day around the peak of the country’s epidemic, which could come around Easter Sunday, health secretary Matt Hancock has warned.
The health secretary’s dire admission was given at the opening of the new NHS Nightingale hospital to fight the Covid-19 outbreak in London.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson has said he will remain in self-isolation due to a high temperature, despite completing his planned seven-day period, and the government’s proposal to give immunity certificates to people who have recovered from Covid-19 has been described as “dangerous” by a health expert because it could give people a “sense of false security” over the virus.
-Independent