World Health Organization (WHO) officials have warned that the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak could include a second peak.
It warned countries – even those that had successfully suppressed the virus and are relaxing restrictions put in place to combat the disease it causes – to remain “on high alert”.
“We may get a second peak in this wave. This happened during pandemics in the past,”
Dr Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, told reporters in Geneva on Monday.
Boris Johnson says he can confirm “for the first time we are past the peak of this disease and on the downward slope”.
The PM says the UK will beat the disease by “growing resolve and ingenuity”, including by working on a vaccine.
He promises that next week the government will release a “comprehensive plan… on how we can get the economy moving, how we can get children back to school and how we can travel to work and make life in the workplace safer”.
He says the plan will be based on “how we can continue to suppress disease and at same time restart the economy”.
Director of the Wellcome Trust Sir Jeremy Farrar, who also advises the government, has told Sophy Ridge he believes we are now past the peak of the first #COVID19 wave and that new infections stabilised around a week ago.
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