Fears for second wave

The COVID Diaries – 122 29th July

Hopes among the scientific community of reducing Covid-19 deaths to zero in England are fading, raising fears that the disease will not be contained as we go into winter and there will be a second wave similar to that being experienced in Europe.

A strategy to eliminate the virus in England, similar to the zero Covid-19 infections target set in Scotland and Northern Ireland is promoted by the Independent Sage committee of leading scientists and medical experts and Dr Chaand Nagpaul, the chair of the British Medical Association