Coronavirus UK: Senior Government advisor Sir John Bell says UK needs national lockdown

Sir John Bell, Oxford University professor of medicine, warned there is an 'eye-watering' number of cases. The senior Government adviser claimed only a national circuit-breaker lockdown would suppress the virus. Jeremy Hunt, the former Health Secretary, also indicated that he would support a second national shutdown Britain recorded 15,650 cases yesterday and 136 deaths as 28 million people were plunged into lockdown. London was moved into a Tier 2 lockdown last night, with police battling a protest in Soho last night