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......Together with NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens, he seems to think that we
just need to take sensible precautions: many more of us in Britain may have to self-isolate.
That’s the official picture so far and if you revisit the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 tracker you’ll
see the death toll outside China has actually gone down to one: they’ve
diplomatically hidden the other one, in Hong Kong, in the list of
‘mainland’ cases, presumably to avoid irritating the Chinese Communist
Party as it addresses the protest-ridden colony and institutes a harder administration there.
On the other hand, we could be headed for a pandemic, as Professor Neil Ferguson told us on the Today programme the previous day.
In that case, he estimated about 60 per cent of the UK population could
be affected. If the mortality rate was 1 per cent, that would be
400,000 fatalities."
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