Spring going to be a lot better, says Chris Whitty, but still no timeline for lockdown exit
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15 January 2021 ⢠6:18pm
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The UK is very likely to be in a much-improved situation by the spring, although no exit strategy from the current national lockdown has yet been announced.Â
Professor Chris Whitty told a Downing Street press conference that whilst is it not the case that suddenly in spring it is all over , there is an expectation that things will be substantially better than they are at the moment .Â
He said: The hope is that is a kind of reasonable timeframe to be thinking about. But if we try to put a hard stop on this we will be caught out by events.
UK Population May Have Seen Largest Fall Since World War II, Study Suggests
The total population of Britain could have fallen by more than 1.3 million during the CCP virus pandemic, mostly as a result of an exodus of non-UK born people, new research suggests.
This would be the largest fall in the UK resident population since World War II, according to researchers from the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE), a UK government-funded think tank that focuses on economic measurement.
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The study’s figures are in stark contrast to those of the Office for National Statistics, which estimated a population rise of about 350,000 for the same period, but doesn’t take into account changes in population growth forecasts caused by the pandemic, the authors say.