Past peak for current wave3 Feb 2021 18:34
All four nations of UK have passed peak for cases, hospitalisations and deaths, says Whitty
At the news conference Prof Chris Whitty said he thought the UK was now past the peak for the second wave of the pandemic. In terms of cases that has been obvious for a while, but in terms of deaths, it is only in the last week or so that the trend has become clear. This is what Whitty said.
Most of my colleagues think we are past the peak. That doesn’t mean you can never have another peak. But at this point in time, provided people continue to follow the guidelines, we are on a downward slope of cases, of hospitalisations and of deaths, in all four of the nations in the United Kingdom. So we do think, at this point, this peak at least, we are passed.