People with covid-19 being treated in a hospital in Belgium REUTERS
England has begun a second national lockdown, after weeks of聽regional restrictions failed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The UK government didn鈥檛 follow suggestions made by scientific advisers in September to institute a shorter lockdown weeks earlier, intended to halt the exponential growth of coronavirus cases.
This new lockdown is needed to stop the spread of the virus, but it and similar efforts across Europe may be too late to prevent the second wave of covid-19 being worse than the first.
鈥淚t鈥檚 pretty bleak,鈥 says Paul…
