A leading medical expert has warned that the UK could be on course to have the highest coronavirus death toll in Europe. Director of the Wellcome Trust, Sir Jeremy Farrar, told the BBC's Marr Show that the UK is 'likely' to be the worst-affected country in the continent.
Asked by host Andrew Marr whether the UK was heading towards the worst death rate in Europe, Sir Jeremy told him it was 'possible'. "The numbers in the UK have continued to go up," he responded. "I do hope that we're coming close to the number of new infections reducing, and in a week or two the number of people needing hospital reducing, and tragically in a couple weeks time the number of deaths plateauing and then starting to come down. "But yes the UK is likely to