UK faces wave of 'avoidable deaths' unless public obeys lockdown, warns Chris Whitty
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mirror.co.ukProfessor Chris Whitty has warned that "avoidable deaths" are inevitable unless people start obeying the lockdown. He predicted that emergency patients will be turned away from hospitals, resulting in unnecessary fatalities, if Covid admissions continue to rise.
England's Chief Medical Officer argued that people who break the rules by meeting others are a 'link in a chain' that puts the most vulnerable at risk.
The professor said the NHS faced being overwhelmed within a fortnight, with some areas facing 'the most dangerous situation anyone can remember'.
Professor Whitty warned that if admissions continue to rise hospitals will run out of room and staff will be swamped with an 'unacceptable' number of patients.
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