British prime minister and chancellor U-turn as Sunak says ‘I recognise that even the sense that the rules aren’t the same for everyone is wrong’
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Boris Johnson is to isolate at Chequers and will not take part in the pilot daily testing programme, a Downing Street spokesman said.
Rishi Sunak, who was also pinged by NHS test and trace, will self-isolate rather than taking part in the daily testing pilot, contrary to a statement released by Downing Street earlier on Sunday.
I recognise that even the sense that the rules aren’t the same for everyone is wrong.
Whilst the test and trace pilot is fairly restrictive, allowing only essential government business, I recognise that even the sense that the rules aren’t the same for everyone is wrong.
To that end I’ll be self isolating as normal and not taking part in the pilot.
If coronavirus cases continue to rise in the UK, they could still yet place a “significant burden” on the health system, Professor Neil Ferguson warned.
The government scientific adviser told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that a level of 2,000 hospital admissions a day was “roughly half what we got to before Christmas with the second wave”.
There you are talking about major disruption of services and cancellation of elective surgery and the backlog in the NHS getting longer and longer.
Still, if you have enough cases you can still have quite significant burden on the healthcare system.
Success would be keeping hospitalisations at around 1,000 a day level and then declining.
Case numbers maybe peaking a little over 100,000 a day and then slowly declining. It is likely to be a slow decline.
