The medical director of NHS England has said there are "green shoots" in the fight against coronavirus but warned against complacency.
Professor Stephen Powis said there is evidence the public was heeding the message on the need to maintain social distancing.
He said there was a "bit of a plateau" in the number of new cases of people testing positive for Covid-19. But he said it was vital that the public kept to the measures. "It is really important not to read too much because it is really early days.
We are not out of the woods, we are very much in the woods," he said told the No 10 press conference. "So green shoots but only green shoots and we must not be complacent and we must not take our foot off the pedal." The jump in