lockdown, reports say. It dropped its daily death toll forecasts from 1,500 to just over 1,000 by December 8 after being rapped by the statistics watchdog.
Experts said Boris Johnson used out-of-date figures up to four times too high when he announced the restrictions last Saturday.
Slides displayed at the Downing Street press conference showed the UK could see 1,500 daily deaths by early next month - higher than the 1,166 peak in April.
But they were "amended after an error was found", the Daily Telegraph reports.Ones now published on the Government's website show a maximum toll of just over 1,000 by December 8.The maximum estimated daily hospital admissions have also been revised down from 9,000 to 6,000.