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Patrick Vallance warns UK death rate is ‘awful’ and COVID could be around forever – Yahoo New Zealand News
Vallance, Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson painted a sober picture of the weeks and months to come.
Sir Patrick Vallance has admitted the UKs COVID death rate is awful amid concerns the new variant of coronavirus may be more deadly than the first.
In a sombre press conference on Friday, the UK’s chief scientific adviser stood alongside Boris Johnson and chief medical officer Chris Whitty to paint a sober picture for the coming weeks.
They said the new variant, first identified in Kent, could be associated with a 30% higher mortality rate.
The three warned that the daily death rate, which hit a…
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