It is a performance that the United Kingdom would have done well. It became Tuesday the European country with the heaviest toll due to the coronavirus, with 32,313 deaths, a higher figure than that of Italy. It is thus the second country affected in the world, behind the United States. Cruel statistics that add pressure on Boris Johnson, who should unveil a strategy of containment next Sunday
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British authorities believe, however, that the peak of the epidemic has been passed, with a slow decrease in the number of victims. The reproduction rate of the virus - the famous R0 - is currently between 0.6 and 0.9, depending on the region and the location. But the government's chief scientific advisor, Patrick Vallance, acknowledged that we were still at an "early stage" of the epidemic. Hospitals continue to record 75% more deaths than usual at this time of year. Above all, the situation remains particularly worrying in homes
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