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Coronavirus warning as patients dying now were infected a month ago

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More families will inevitably lose loved ones to coronavirus because patients dying now were infected around a month ago - weeks before social distancing measures were put in place - an expert has warned.

Professor James Naismith, director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute at the University of Oxford, spoke out after a further 209 people in the UK died after being tested for Covid-19, bringing the total to 1,228.And other academics cautioned people not to assume that because the 209 figure was lower than the 260 who died in the previous 24 hours, it meant the disease was under control.

Prof Naismnith said: "I am confident that provided we follow social distancing the increase in deaths will stop and this will be followed by a decrease in

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