Originally Posted by 1010101

The Italian government has had enough time now to assess how this virus spreads and has categorised industries according to risk level, and presumably other countries will draw the same conclusions. Air travel is considered the highest risk alongside healthcare. Even if lockdown is relaxed i expect travel will be restricted for some time to come.

Originally Posted by Keiran Newberry

Wouldn't say hospital admissions are linked to testing. Well, they are, but not in the way you suggest. My point was that not as many people are presenting as critically ill as they have been preparing for - which is a good thing. We need to increase testing, of course we do. But increased testing and positives wouldn't necessarily lead to an increase in admissions. It is likely 10s of 1000s more of us have had it than the numbers suggest, having suffered no or only mild symptoms and required no medical assistance whatsoever, so, it wouldn't mean that 10s of 1000s more would have been admitted to hospital. If testing was increased and widely rolled out, as I believe it should be, what the statistics would probably be showing us is that the virus is actually far less deadly than we're statistically seeing at the moment in the UK. Because, what we'd be seeing is a vastly increased number of infections and only a fairly modest increase in deaths.