coronavirus cases are now "increasing exponentially" once again. Professor John Edmunds, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), has told ITV News that the autumn will be a challenge.
Professor Edmunds, of the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said that although we are all still socially distancing far more than we were before the virus arrived, we have not "hit the sweet spot" that allows more normal economic activity and simultaneous control of the spread of the virus.
He also raised the prospect not just of more local lockdowns but also of renewed national curbs on our freedoms – because opening schools and universities would have "an.
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