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Ambulances parked at NHS Nightingale Hospital at the ExCel centre in London
LOCKDOWN measures enacted to slow the spread of Covid-19 “are working,” but it is yet to be seen whether they have resulted in a fall in the number of hospital cases, the government said today.
At this afternoon’s daily Downing Street briefing, deputy chief scientific adviser Professor Angela McLean said that the efforts by Britons to stay at home are helping control the spread of the virus.
Growth in the number of Covid-19 hospital cases is “not as bad as it would have been if we had not made these efforts,” she said.
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