Boris Johnson under pressure to put UK in lockdown, again
Infections are doubling every nine days and an estimated 960,000 people are carrying the virus in England on any one day
London — Boris Johnson faces growing calls to introduce another national lockdown as scientists warn coronavirus measures in England are failing to control the spread of the disease.
Infections are doubling every nine days and an estimated 960,000 people are carrying the virus in England on any one day, according to the latest findings from Imperial College London and Ipsos Mori, which is conducting one of the country’s largest studies of the disease. The reproduction rate of the virus — a measure of how many people on average are infected by a single carrier — has risen to 1.6, compared with 1.2 when the last figures were published October 9...
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