The United Kingdom already has the biggest official COVID-19 death toll in Europe — and the fifth largest in the world — while it is borrowing record amounts in an attempt to pump emergency money into the damaged economy. That means doubling and doubling and doubling again, and you can quickly move from really quite small numbers to really very large numbers," Whitty said. WATCH | Cases doubling roughly every 7 days, U.K. expert says:Experts in the United Kingdom are issuing a dire warning about the number of COVID-19 cases in the coming months. Fifty-thousand new cases per day are possible by mid-October, leading to 200 deaths per day a month later. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing pressure as government health experts warn Britain will face an exponentially growing death rate from COVID-19 within weeks.

Source: CBC News September 21, 2020 12:09 UTC