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Coronavirus: UK will be 'worse than China' warns scientist as death toll soars

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A top scientist has warned that the UK is in a "dangerous state" as the coronavirus death toll accelerates faster than China at the worst stage of the pandemic.

Scientist Tom Pike from Imperial College now admits he underestimated the danger of the disease after he previously predicted 5,700 people would die in the UK.

He calculated his original death rate based on the assumption that Britain would follow a similar pattern to Wuhan in China, where the disease was first spotted.

His paper put Britain's peak at 260 deaths a day, but the UK has already hit that figure over the weekend, with no hint of it slowing down.

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