New known cases of COVID-19 have started to drop across the U.K., with the number of positive tests during the past seven days falling 13.8% from the week before. Some 2,861 COVID-related deaths were reported over the last 7-day period, 17 fewer than a week earlier. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, the government’s deputy chief medical officer, warned that any gains from the November lockdown could be quickly lost to a virus that takes “just seconds” to spread. People should “keep up the pressure on this virus and push down on it as much as we can right to the end of the period (of lockdown),” he said. The government’s scientific advisory group, known as SAGE, is expected to publish reports on Monday showing that Johnson's earlier three-tiered strategy wasn’t strong enough and recommending tougher restrictions when it returns.

Source: Daily Sun November 22, 2020 09:00 UTC