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Government scientific advisor warns of 100,000 deaths if lockdown eased too soon
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A scientific adviser to the Government has warned that the UK could still suffer more than 100,000 deaths by the end of the year if measures are hastily relaxed.
The unnamed advisor told the Sunday Times: "There is very limited room for manoeuvre." It is understood that warnings about the potential death toll were sent to the government's Sage advisory committee early last week by researchers from the London School of Tropical Hygiene, Imperial College and other centres.
The experts modelled different lockdown exit policies "to evaluate which were viable and which were not," a scientific adviser said.
The source told the paper more than one model had put the death toll in six figures in some scenarios. Boris Johnson acknowledged the scale
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