Get our daily coronavirus email newsletter with all the news you need to know direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailCoronavirus is "holding a gun" to the UK government's head as stricter lockdown measures for parts of the north loom. Professor John Edmunds, a member of the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), the situation is not far from the NHS being stretched in the north of England. Professor Edmunds said: "I don't think it's us (scientists) holding the guns to the Prime Minister's head, I think it's the virus." He said: "But, in the north of England now, we are not that far away from the health service being stretched. "Because even if we turn the epidemic around now, infections that occur today won't go to hospital for another week or two."

Source: Daily Mirror October 08, 2020 21:07 UTC