coronavirus epidemic, a leading scientist has warned amid fears that other towns and cities could follow Leicester into local lockdown.
Epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London – who quit as a government adviser after admitting breaking lockdown rules – said the UK should be braced for regional flare-ups.It comes amid criticism of the way Public Health England (PHE) and the government are handling data on coronavirus cases, with accusations of long delays in sharing figures with regional public health experts.Professor Ferguson told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme the UK was not over the worst and said the country was “relatively blind” in late February and early March over how much infection there was in the.