The UK is nowhere near lifting of lockdown
The UK is nowhere near ready to lift the lockdown measures it put in place to tackle the spread of Covid-19, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has said.
Prime minister Boris Johnson, who is currently in intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsened, imposed the measures on 23 March, saying that they would be reviewed after three weeks.
With the date approaching, Khan told the BBC on Wednesday: “I think we are nowhere near lifting the lockdown.
“We think the peak, which is the worst part of the virus, is still probably a week and a half away.”
“In London we lost 224 lives yesterday, so we’re still, I’m afraid, on a daily basis seeing too many people losing their lives,” he said. “At the moment thankfully we’ve got some spare capacity in intensive care units in London but we can’t be complacent at all” he added
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