Yet the number of Covid-19 deaths has remained relatively low. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play nowSecond, the age distribution of people getting infected is very different from the Spring. The problem is that unless we control the virus in younger people, infections and deaths will rise in older people. Fourth, it’s vital to remember that the number of hospitalisations and then the number of deaths only rise some weeks after the number of cases goes up. For example, in Marseille in South France the number of cases went up a while ago, and intensive care is now filling up.

Source: Daily Mirror September 10, 2020 12:41 UTC