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People dying of coronavirus caught disease a month ago, expert warns

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British patients who are dying from coronavirus caught the disease a month ago, an expert has warned. Professor James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute at the University of Oxford, says many of the 1,228 who have died from Covid-19 were infected weeks before social distancing measures were put in place.

On Sunday, a further 209 people in the UK died from the disease, lower than Saturday's total of 260, but other experts warn it would be wrong to assume the disease was under control, HullLive reports.

Prof Naismith said: “I am confident that provided we follow social distancing the increase in deaths will stop and this will be followed by a decrease in the daily numbers. “It can take up to two weeks from infection to

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