A second national lockdown is a possibility but “we have to do what we can to avoid that at all costs”, a leading scientist has said.
Peter Horby, who chairs a government advisory group, said that the country was in a precarious position as coronavirus cases and hospital admissions continued to rise.
“The numbers are not looking good at all. We’ve got increasing cases, increasing hospitalisations, both in younger adults but also in the elderly — those most at risk — and we are starting to see the number of deaths increase as well,” he said.
The dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, warned that the second spike of infections threatened to be worse than the first. Alison Pittard told Times Radio: “It
