UK coronavirus LIVE: Death toll rises by 89 as cities face quarantine blockades to stop spread
A second wave of coronavirus could be twice as bad, researchers have warned, as the death toll rises by 89.
The sobering analysis, published in The Lancet Child And Adolescent Health today, follows suggestions that pubs may need to be shut, or social freedoms curbed, to enable kids to return to the classroom while keeping the spread of Covid-19 down.
This morning, local Government minister Simon Clarke insisted that schools will reopen "in full" in the autumn whatever the challenges, and that the matter was "not up for debate".
His comments came after Downing Street admitted it was prepared to quarantine towns and cities in UK hotspots to avoid another national lockdown. This would involve ministers imposing travel restrictions in areas suffering severe outbreaks to stop residents leaving.
The death toll rose by 89 today, as more than 56,000 deaths involving the virus have now been registered across the country, according to the latest Office For National Statistics figures.
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