LONDON: It was early spring when British scientists laid out the bald truth to their government. It was "highly likely", they said, that there was now "sustained transmission" of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.
Advertisement Advertisement If unconstrained and if the virus behaved as in China, up to four-fifths of Britons could be infected and one in a hundred might die, wrote the scientists, members of an official committee set up to model the spread of pandemic flu, on Mar 2.