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UK 'almost exactly' at 50,000 daily coronavirus cases 'worst-case scenario'
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mirror.co.ukThe "worst-case scenario" of 50,000 cases of coronavirus per day across the UK is "almost exactly where we are at", a top advisor has warned.
Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust and a member of the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) predicted the daily case number had hit the milestone.
The 50,000 figure is the "reasonable worst case scenario" that SAGE predicted several weeks ago. He told Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday: "The ONS survey, which is the best data in the country at the moment, shows that 27,000 people are getting this infection every day.
But that was until the 10th of October. "Today it will be over 50,000, just as the CMO (chief medical officer) Chris Whitty and (the Government's
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