Sir Patrick Vallance said recently-introduced social distancing measures would be expected to reduce the peak number of cases by 50%.

The government chief scientific adviser told the Select Committee it was a "semantic difference" to argue whether the UK had shifted from a process of delaying and mitigating the spread of coronavirus to an attempt to suppress it. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn