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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxHealth experts are warning the UK could suffer up to 30,000 more deaths in the grim battle again Coronavirus.Despite 23 million people having been vaccinated against the disease, and continuing drops in the number of cases, hospital admissions and deaths, experts are warning the war against the killer disease is far from over.Professor Sir Ian Diamond, head of the Office for National Statistics, warned another spike in cases was highly probable, most likely this autumn, or in the winter months.The government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has also suggested that even under the most optimistic set of figures, at least 30,000

coronavirus in Scotland in the last 24 hours. The  Scottish Government  this afternoon revealed 484 new cases of the virus have been identified overnight, bringing the total cases to 209,552.

Covid-19 infections in the autumn.Professor Sir Ian Diamond, head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), also said there is a lot of regional variation in terms of how many people have antibodies.His comments come after England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said there were still risks to reopening society and the UK will experience another surge of cases at some point, potentially in late summer or through the autumn and winter.Sir Ian said people need to understand how the data is moving forward and look at the impact of the "wonderful" vaccine rollout."But having said that, we need also to recognise that this is a virus that isn't going to go away," he told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One."And I have no doubt that

Experts have admitted they don’t know how far schools might be fuelling England’s second wave after they recorded more than 1,000 groups of coronavirus cases.