UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said Covid deaths may be plateauing, but the UK remained in a "difficult position" He told a Downing Street press conference: “Although things have slowed down, and actually we’re at a plateau or possible decreasing across the country, that’s not true everywhere.
In some cases, there are still some increases. “So we are at a position where the lockdowns have worked, they’ve slowed this down, they’ve reached a position where it has reached a plateau and is beginning to decline – and we see that in cases, we’re beginning to see that in hospital admissions and we’re beginning to see that in deaths – but it is early days. “This isn’t coming down quickly, we remain at very high levels and it