Experts: UK Might See 120K Deaths This Winter

Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of COVID-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said on Tuesday.

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With COVID-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together in enclosed spaces, a second wave of the pandemic ‘could be more serious than the one we’ve just been through,’ said Stephen Holgate, a professor and co-lead author of a report by Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS).