The U.K. has today announced 449 more coronavirus deaths - the fewest for a fortnight - taking Britain’s total death toll to 16,509. Connor Boyd, Sa, Blanchard, and Stephen Matthews write in the Daily Mail that England declared 429 deaths and a further 20 were confirmed across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And 4,676 more people have tested positive for the virus, taking the total number of patients to 124,743. Professor Carl Heneghan, a leading expert at the University of Oxford, has argued the peak was actually about a month ago, a week before lockdown started on March 23, and that the draconian measures people are now living with were unnecessary. He said data shows infection rates halved after the government launched a public information campaign on 16 March urging people to wash their hands and keep two meters (6’6”) away from others. He said ministers “lost sight” of the evidence and rushed into a nationwide quarantine six days later after being instructed by scientific advisers who he claims have been ‘consistently wrong’ during the crisis.