The current measures could last for six months or even long, the government's deputy chief medical officer warned today. Dr Jenny Harries told a Downing Street press conference that people should not be viewing the crisis as something that will blow over within weeks.
She said it will not be clear whether the 'social distancing' measures are working for another two or three weeks - with deaths set to rise further.
But even if it does, reverting to a 'normal way of life' immediately would probably lead to a disastrous new peak in infections, she said.
Dr Harries said people had taken 'quite some time to get used to this new way of living', but there was evidence the country was getting better at social distancing.
She added: 'The issue of the three weeks is for us to review where we are and see if we've had an impact jointly on the slope of that curve.
'But I think to make it clear to the public if we are successful we will have squashed the top of that curve, which is brilliant, but we must not then suddenly revert to our normal way of living that would be quite dangerous.
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