The death toll from the coronavirus in the UK jumped by 20 percent to 4,313 on Saturday as 708 new deaths were confirmed by health officials.

The surge in deaths comes after a top epidemiologist warned on Saturday that the infection rate in the UK will remain high for “weeks and weeks” if people flout social distancing rules this weekend.

Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said that while the epidemic was expected to plateau in the next 10 days, people’s behaviour was critical to determining the course of the outbreak.

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Source: RT