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Professor Neil Ferguson tells public inquiry experts had ‘almost no visibility’ of government preparedness
Cautious optimism as growth in hospitalisation rates in UK capital falls in recent days
Boris Johnson coming under pressure to clarify whether England faces post-Christmas restrictions
Social mixing set to rise with new football season, schools reopening and workers returning to office
The man who created Covid statistical models
Top Covid adviser says officers are constrained in what they can say and do in public
B.1.1.7 virus is estimated to be between 60 and 70 per cent more transmissible
Ex-science adviser says coronavirus toll could have been halved, while UK PM also faces bad news on testing and economy
Neil Ferguson of Imperial College says imposing coronavirus restrictions a week before would have drastically reduced toll
Neil Ferguson’s team has sent modelling findings to government but not released them to the public
Imperial College professor’s study prompted introduction of social distancing in the UK
The epidemiologist and his team revealed the UK’s coronavirus ‘mitigation’ plan could cost thousands of lives
Imperial College modelling suggests new stringent measures will reduce toll to 20,000
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