Professor Neil Ferguson, director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College and the man behind the study which convinced to Government to change tact on tackling Coronavirus has told a House of Commons Committee that he expects the NHS with the new measures in place has the resources to cope with the Coronovirus Epidemic.

He told MP’s that he thought in some areas intensive care units will get very close to capacity even though it has more than two the number of critical beds.

Professor Ferguson added that he expected the peak on hospitals will come in the next two and a half to three weeks.

Telling asked by MP’s if he expected coronavirus to return in the winter, he said that the measures now in place should lead to the epidemic starting to decline instead of growing.he added that he thought the current social isolation measures were not sustainable for the rest of the year. As they were relaxed, there would be some resurgence

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