‘Worst-case’ UK winter could see 120,000 coronavirus deaths in second wave, health experts say

Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of Covid-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said on Tuesday.With Covid-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together in enclosed spaces, a second wave of the pandemic “could be more serious than the one we’ve just been through,” said Stephen Holgate, a professor and co-lead author of a report by Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3093038/worst-case-uk-winter-could-see-120000-coronavirus-deaths-second