Millions more people face coronavirus infection in the coming months as government advisers fear that cases are higher than in the first wave and are unlikely to fall substantially until spring.
After a record death toll yesterday, scientists fear that a new variant of the virus and less rigorous adherence to the rules means cases are unlikely to “peak”. Instead, they predict that cases will plateau at a high rate throughout winter.
The 1,325 reported deaths yesterday passed the 1,224 recorded on April 21. Analysis of the date when deaths occurred, however, shows that the most lethal day of the pandemic was April 8, with 1,073 deaths. Currently about 600 to 700 people a day are dying. William Welfare, the Covid-19 response director at Public
