Over 30million Brits could already have coronavirus, a bombshell study has revealed. The new research means millions of vulnerable people will be exposed to the deadly bug regardless of Boris Johnson’s tough new social distancing measures.
It means the Imperial College pandemic model – which the Government has used to inform policy – could be fatally flawed. Oxford professor Sunetra Gupta – who lead the groundbreaking study – hit out at the Government for not being more skeptical about the Imperial results.
She blasted: “I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model. “We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys — antibody testing — to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now.” T