Coronavirus hospital admissions may now be “flattening out”, scientists said today - but the number of patients in beds may not ease for a month.
Professor Chris Whitty tonight said there were early signs that hospitalisations are beginning to come down in the south east, east of England and London.
But new hospital cases were still rising in the Midlands and north, the Chief Medical Officer warned the Downing Street press conference.
And a SAGE paper published today suggested that even if new hospital admissions come down, it will take weeks for the number of occupied beds to fall.