A senior UK health chief said the countries could be in lockdown for another six months in order to prevent the coronavirus from coming back.
It comes as one of the government’s top coronavirus advisors admitted the UK’s epidemic will get worse before it gets better but the peak of it could pass by Easter.
The virus expert, from Imperial College London, was one of the authors behind a study that may have saved Britain after warning the Government its plan could kill thousands of people. He later caught the virus himself and recovered.