Earlier lockdown would 'halve UK deaths'

Updated June 11 2020 - 5:07am, first published 5:04am
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty says he wished the UK had been able to speed up testing earlier.
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty says he wished the UK had been able to speed up testing earlier.

Britain's death toll from COVID-19 could have been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier, a former member of the UK government's scientific advisory group says.

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