Sage warns Covid second wave will be worse than first, amid mounting calls for new national lockdown

Sage modelling has shown that the second wave looks to last for much longer than the first, with a sustained death toll throughout the winter, in a stark prediction for the next few months. Internal analysis, first reported on by The Telegraph, projects that deaths will peak at a lower level than during the first wave last spring, but could remain at that level beyond Christmas, and potentially into March. Sir Patrick Vallance and other advisers have reportedly urged the Government to act quickly.