CORONAVIRUS infections are now “back under control” – just as England is set to be plunged into a harsher Tiers system, Matt Hancock said tonight.
The Health Secretary hailed the latest figures showing case rates going down after the month-long lockdown, just as the nation is about to be shoved into a harsh system of tiers keeping pubs closed and stopping people from seeing friends and family.
Speaking at the No10 press conference tonight, he claimed that the lockdown has worked in “reducing the pressures on the NHS”.
He stated: “We’ve got this virus back under control, I want to thank you for that.”
And Professor Stephen Powis of NHS England said today that in recent days “we have started to turn the corner” on hospital admissions.
It takes a couple of weeks before the effects of a national lockdown to be shown, he explained today.
He added: “It will be the next week or two where we see the full effects come through.”
