The UK has reached a “crisis point” and needs to take urgent action to bring the virus under control, according to a document released by Independent SAGE today.
The group of independent scientists has claimed that Britain is just one week away from seeing levels of hospitalisations from coronavirus that were seen in March.
New modelling by neuroscientist Professor Karl Friston of University College London shows that the UK has "only two to three weeks" to improve contact tracing if we are to avoid another national lockdown.
And they claim that with the epidemic doubling every 8 days, the UK's hospitals could soon be at a crunch point. Mathematician Christina Pagel of UCL warned that hospitals risk being at March 17 levels by next weekend.