The UK is “past the peak” of the coronavirus outbreak and “we are on a downward slope,” Boris Johnson has said.
The UK’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 26,711, a rise of 674 in the last 24-hours, the prime minister said at his first government briefing since he was hospitalised with Covid-19.
It comes as a poll shows that two-thirds of the British public believe the government was too slow to enforce a lockdown. The government is also under pressure over testing on the crunch day for its target of carrying out 100,000 daily by the end of April. Robert Buckland admitted that the government “probably won’t” hit that ambitious goal.
