Mass gatherings would not be cancelled, the prime minister said, because doing so would not reduce the risk of mass infections. Now Anthony Costello, a former director of the World Health Organisation and a UK paediatrician, has publicly called out the advice. "To avoid an unmanageable catastrophe in the UK, we need to be honest about what seems likely to happen in coming weeks," he said. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s current director general, expressed concern about the end of contact tracing in the UK and other countries. Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for the Government to publish its modelling so a wider pool of experts can scrutinise the plans.

Source: Daily Mirror March 15, 2020 23:15 UTC