Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailPeople dying from coronavirus this weekend caught the disease a month ago - weeks before social distancing measures were put in place, an expert has claimed. The tragic deaths today will be from people infected roughly a month ago. (Image: Peter Macdiarmid/LNP)He said that 209 deaths were a "terrible loss" and added: "It is true that this is less than might have been expected from exponential growth. Eleanor Riley, professor of immunology and infectious disease, University of Edinburgh, said: "It would be most unwise to infer any trend from a single day's data. For example, one of the deaths reported today actually occurred 13 days ago."

Source: Daily Mirror March 29, 2020 21:16 UTC