England’s chief physician, Professor Chris Whitty, shows us the numbers for what he calls a “very sad day”.
The number of people tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK has reached an extremely high number, he says.
“It’s still a high number, but it’s falling … we need to be careful not to relax too early,” he says.
He says there are 35,000 people in the hospital.
“It’s leveled, (but) substantially above the peak in April,” he says.
“It looks like it’s falling a little bit in some areas, but in others it’s not convincing,” he says.
“The number of deaths has decreased at a very high level,” he says.
“We need to be realistic that this number will decrease relatively slowly over the next two weeks.”