‘Worst-case’ UK winter could see 120,000 Covid deaths in second wave, say health experts | Malay Mail

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LONDON, July 14 — Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of Covid-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said todaoy. With Covid-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together in...

Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 07:43 AM MYT

With Covid-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together in enclosed spaces, a second wave of the pandemic “could be more serious than the one we’ve just been through,” said Stephen Holgate, a professor and co-lead author of a report by Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences . The AMS said there is a “high degree of uncertainty” about how the UK’s Covid-19 epidemic will evolve, but outlined a “reasonable worst-case scenario” where the reproduction number — or R value — rises to 1.7 from September 2020 onwards.

 

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