Stephen Powis, the medical director of National Health Service England, warned the public against complacency and said everyone had to play their part in hindering the spread of the virus.
“If it is less than 20,000... that would be a good result though every death is a tragedy, but we should not be complacent about that,” he said at a news conference in Downing Street.Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major power to announce a positive test result for coronavirus on Friday. He is self-isolating in Downing Street but still leading the UK response to the crisis.
The minister for Scotland, Alister Jack, said on Saturday he had developed a temperature and a cough in the past 24 hours and was now working from home in isolation. He has not been tested for coronavirus.
I bet a house payment on the under. Definitely over hyped.
Shambolic
This man need to stop trying to be politician give higher number and tell our how great they performed if low the number they gave
mikey5x
just like they got the Y2K Bomb thingy wrong, I hope he is wrong too,very wrong ..otherwise 😱😱 this is pure horror
If you set the bar low enough you’d overcome every crisis gloriously
ShameUK
By 20,000, he means 200,000
Quoting the same bull day in day out....
Didn't need to be that high if the government had done what we pay them to do
Shame they didn’t put so much money into heart attacks, and other more serious. Diseases that kill much more people every year
Although his words seemed cold-blooded, But it was true
That’s a very large number.
I wonder what age group are they targeting !!!!!!!!! It is a shame to talk about deaths rather than mitigate the spread of the virus.
If we can keep Made in China out of our life the deaths will be below 20,000.realDonaldTrump shirenar
Translation: We are happy to sacrifice 20,000 people to get to HerdImmunity. Disgraceful! CullingTheHerd
Means The Great Britain 🇬🇧 is ready for 20K death. 🙄 It is clearly mistake by govt
Every one go back to work now
Sad that the bar is this low 20k deaths is A LOT of people. thats not 'doing very well'
Trump is doing the worst among all.
This is what happens when you put wealth value before human life it suddenly becomes a game of static’s and not ethical and moral grounds. Only when it comes to wealth can you use such terms as “if less than so many die then it is ok”.
On current progression , doubling every three days, that’s going to be in 12 days time more or less.
Do the maths... June will show which way this goes... Dead March April May June Good 1k. 5k. 7k. 6k Bad. 1k. 6k. 10k. 15k V.Bad 1k. 6k. 15k. 25k
someone tell these geniuses there is a cure
What the hell?
Well done boys. Give that man a knighthood, alive or dead.
Herd immunity, HaHaHa
Thats about the death toll of the influenza every year there no?
I wonder how many trump is comfortable losing.
like for the whole duration or the peak asking for a friend DonaldJTrumpJr
Always a bad idea to try and predict numbers of dead during a pandemic.
Up to 20,000 is doing very well? You sound like Trump. Very well, is stopping this thing before it got a foot hold which Boris Johnson, who now has the bug, did not do
in this tough time, UK is most candor country I have seen. there should be serious economic thoughts that prevent them from taking radical actions in the background.
The original numbers of deaths were predicted to be 30,000. We can slow the spread by staying home and listening to our Govenors.
We all need to step up and be serious in the face of the DEADLY CCPVirus. It could very well kill someone you love and care about, or break the heart of someone dear to you through a loss of their own. It's important that we all look out for each other, against the CCPVirus
Come on, you can do better than Iran! 😂
JaneyGodley Italian deaths are circa 10 K - in what world is double that amount of deaths 'doing OK?'
So you have a problem with reality What is your proposed solution?
This is just stupid
China is not given the right numbers !
JaneyGodley People compare it to the flu, checked it out 600 die in the U.K. of flu; so 2000 is a huge number to start with
Germany seems to be the only smart country in this catastrophe.
Cant believe the arrogance still here and not to admit you failed to stop the virus invasion. Very British. Set those number higher so you can achieve the goal no matter what
Shameful. The UK Government has let us down completely and now our leaders hide, feigning illness, while they regroup to try to get their lies straight. Now they want congratulation for 20,000 deaths. Utterly shameful.
I belive that We will be able to Overcome this crisis.
They would have done better if there was better leadership.
Yea. Id say. Since 50,000+ die from the flu... And they predicted 2,000,000
England - is the refuge of traitors and embezzlers of Russia! “On business - and honors!”
if only we had leadership like this here.
We won't be getting this level of forecasting from the White House. They'll just keep finding new scapegoats.
20,000 UK citizens life so cheap? when thousand china people died your british govt make so much Hoo Ha? We felt petty for you folks.
Well he is optimistic,my heart bleeds for the lost
英国政府可以解散了，因为你们太失败了！和我们中国相比，你们太无能了！
Is that what they call British humor? Seems pretty morbid to say something like that when you are so far away from that number.
🤔🙄😔😢
China deaths about 3K, and the situation is controlled. UK should be better than China, so come on
Math doesn’t lie or kill... propaganda does.
Keeping it real. I respect their candor.
CoronaVirus has potential to be elusive & dangerous on many levels.Researcher Expert Leader USA Europe etc has misjudged threat. We vulnerable now. What's next? i.e. can mutated Covid19 circle back to us us through nature etc? Or another virus/threat will drag us deeper?
Yeah this is the opposite to what was said by the UK Govt prior to Boris catching COVIDー19 ... TooLate
The US death toll is 2k already and half of the states are still acting like this is going to just blow over. We are ducked.
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