as global deaths from coronavirus past
half-a-million a leading scientist
advising number 10 says the UK is on a
knife edge in the pandemic and he
expects a rise in cases in the coming
weeks professor Sir Jeremy Ferrum who's
a member of the government's age
Advisory Committee also told the BBC he
expects a second wave of infections in
the winter the number of people recorded
to have died with coronavirus in the UK
rose by 36 in the last 24 hours
and that takes the total number of
deaths to 40 3550 it comes as the Home
Secretary Preeti Patel says the
government is considering imposing a
localized lockdown in leicester after a
surge of coronavirus cases in the city
our health correspondent Catherine burns
as the rare latest great to have you
back for now at least it almost looks
like normal but about a quarter of all
of the corona virus cases Leicester has
seen have happened in the first two
weeks of this month so just as this city
is opening up there are reports about it
locking back down again in some way
people are heading home after a busy
weekend in the shops but there are real
questions to be asked about what
Leicester is going to look like next
weekend so we know that the City Council
is working with public health officials
going through data on the new cases
asking are they some kind of cluster and
if so is it time to bring in new
restrictions the local authority and
health officials are meeting tomorrow
morning and the top priority will be to
map out exactly where the new cases are
happening in the city we need the data
we and you need to know what is
happening on the ground in Leicester and
its surf some helpful readjust to talk
about outbreaks or to work to suggest
that there needs to be a citywide
lockdown we need to know what the real
situation is on the ground here in our
city at the new video for soon they're
gonna do a lockdown for less time and
once I've got a mean that what about
people that can
stuff while bar people are working
outside of most of it living less than
what's going up into people like that
it's my dad's birthday next weekend and
with fully fantasy and you know I'm
obviously not sealing for months and
months and the fact that just for once
it's just our look isn't it I would be
gutted you know people are looking
forward to starting to you know getting
their lives back to normal we need to go
home but if we have to be left alone and
all this as across the UK pubs and bars
will open up over the next few weeks the
main advice for people is to stick to
social distancing stay at home where
possible and to wash their hands
regularly officials in Leicester say the
new cases could be partly explained by
more testing and that there's been no
increase in hospital admissions or
deaths but as lockdown eases we still
have no vaccine or cure for coronavirus
and so a warning not to be complacent
we're on a knife edge is very precarious
the situation in particularly England at
the moment and I would anticipate we
would see an increase in in new cases
over the coming weeks next three months
are absolutely critical
the numbers are lower but the virus
hasn't changed and come the winter come
the reopening of schools which is
absolutely critical we can anticipate to
see rebounds and second waves lockdown
is a blunt tool easy to start but
infinitely harder to come out of we can
possibly expect more local outbreaks and
so more difficult decisions in places
across the country in the months ahead
Katherine burns BBC news well I hope
that it's a Hume is with me um how
worried is the government over places
like Leicester well Clive there is
concern high levels of the Department of
Health and public health England about
what they're seeing in Leicester just in
the last few days more cases than they'd
expect and more than what was reported
10 days or so ago when there was a large
number of cases in the Leicester area
now it's not entirely clear whether this
is just localized or not it seems it
probably is it could possibly be linked
to the food processing industry we've
seen links between virus outbreaks and
factories in other areas of the country
certainly local
politicians and officials want to know
what this data is and they've got this
meeting tomorrow with public health
experts to discuss it so we're talking I
think localized outbreaks here so what
sort of measures are going to be
considered well no decisions yet I'm
told unlikely to be some widespread
lockdown it could well be very localized
targeted initiatives like closing shops
in certain areas possibly schools cafes
it could be a public information
campaign just focused on Lester's
particular issues now the point being
made is this data was picked up by the
test and trace system which has been
rolled out nationally across England
that's what it's there for to spot these
localized outbreaks so action can be
taken but certainly there's a challenge
here and so Jeremy Farah of Wellcome
Trust we heard just a minute or so ago
saying we're living on a knife edge here
this virus is very much still
circulating okay many thanks you
whooping our health editor