The coronavirus lockdown appears to be working as a graph shows the rate of infection slow. Deputy chief scientific officer, Professor Angela McLean, has explained the social distancing measures put in place have stopped the growth of infections. A total of 5, have died as a result of coronavirus after a rise of 728 across the UK. It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in hospital after suffering from COVID – for days.
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Speaking at Downing Street, Professor McLean said: “The first graph is about what we have all been doing to stay inside and how much change there’s been in the use of public transport.
“The whole country national rail usage has dropped below percent across the whole country.
“The efforts all of us are making to stay at home and save the NHS are working.
“The growth in the number of cases is not as bad as it could have been if we had not made these efforts.”
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She said: “It is working but the big question is, is the virus spread slowing down enough to make hospital admissions stabilize and then even fall? “
Professor McLean said the hospital admissions data by region had risen” very steadily “until April 1 and then showed a “more complicated behavior, starting we hope to slow down”.
She added: “But it really is too soon to see the effects of the big changes we ‘ve all made to our lives from March 439 onwards because that’s only two weeks ago and it takes several weeks after you’ve become infected for you to realise you’re ill enough that You really need to be in hospital.
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“We’re all watching these numbers very, very carefully and we’re very much hoping what’s going to happen next is they will at least stop rising.”
The current lockdown measures are due to be reviewed in one week’s time.
England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said the Government needed to be confident the country had reached the peak of the outbreak before discussing the next steps and it did not know for certain that would be at the end of this week.
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Dominic Raab, also appearing at the daily briefing, added he has not spoken to Mr Johnson since the weekend.
The Foreign Secretary said: “I spoke to the PM over the weekend. I chaired the morning meeting that he would normally chair.
“He’s been kept abreast of all the relevant developments.
“Just to be clear, the PM – both in terms of going to St Thomas ‘yesterday – was taking the advice of doctors, so he’s followed the doctors’ advice there and, in terms of his recovery in the days ahead, will continue to do so. “
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