UK: There could be 55,000 coronavirus cases, says government's top scientific adviser British prime minister Boris Johnson speaks du...
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| British prime minister Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference inside 10 Downing Street in London. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA |
The government’s chief scientific adviser has suggested there could already be 55,000 coronavirus cases in the UK.
On Tuesday, health and social care committee chairman Jeremy Hunt asked Sir Patrick Vallance whether the expected death rate was one fatality for every 1,000 cases, which would mean there is “potentially 55,000 cases”.
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Asked if this could be correct, Sir Patrick said: “If you put all the modelling information together, that’s a reasonable ballpark way of looking at it.
“It’s not more accurate than that.”
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