The latest lockdowns have been a “success” but the UK is “still not out of the woods”, the head of the official statistics body has said.
Prof Sir Ian Diamond, the head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), said there had been “very strong reductions everywhere”, although in the north-east and east of England the decline had “flattened off, potentially”, unlike in the south-west and south-east, which have continued with a decline in cases.
Diamond told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think this lockdown has been a success but at the same time, while we have seen major reductions, we are still relatively high. I’m in very much the view that we should do everything we can not to blow it nationally.
“We have done fantastically well in the last couple of months but we are not completely out of the woods yet.”
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