UK could relax some coronavirus lockdown rules in weeks, says top epidemiologist
12:59, 04/04/2020, SaturdayU: Update: 13:31, 04/04/2020, Saturday
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People are seen following social distancing rules as they queue for the Post Office in Kennington, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 4, 2020.
Britain could relax some social-distancing measures in a matter of weeks if the spread of the coronavirus eases and testing steps up, a leading professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London said on Saturday.
"I'm hopeful that in a few weeks' time we will be able to move to a regime which - will not be normal life, let me emphasize that - but will be somewhat more relaxed in terms of social-distancing and the economy but rely more on testing," Neil Ferguson he told BBC Radio.