The UK remains at risk of enduring another coronavirus peak as the rate of new cases continues to make little downward movement, a health chief has warned.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned that the country was by no means out of the danger zone yet at the Downing Street press conference today.
For the past week and a half the number of new cases confirmed daily in the UK was between 4,000 and 5,000, with only the earliest hints that the infection curve was falling. "It isn't clear there is an enormous downturn at this point," Professor Van-Tam said. "The numbers are varying day to day but they remain high and we remain in a situation of danger that we must take very seriously indeed." Do you have