Johnson vows to ramp up testing.

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We've now overtaken Italy and have yet to start plateauing which isn't very good

In what metric have we now "overtaken Italy"?

That one, our death rate has overtaken Italy's.

all sorts of stats out there regarding cumulative deaths and a lot depends on where your starting point for comparison is (i.e what is day zero) along the timeline of the epidemic in each country. Foe example Germany lauded as an example of how to tackle the virus is tracking higher than the UK on both graphs.

I mentioned Italy specifically because they have a significantly older population. The UK is higher than Germany on the FT graph and it shows death rate, not cumulative deaths.

I'll go back to my other point as well, we've not started to plateau. If you look at both graphs Italy had started to plateau and the rate was going down at this point, it isn't for us.

I'm not saying your statement was intrinsically wrong or inaccurate but however you splice it the loss of lives is terrible across the world and I dearly hope that it can be kept as low as possible.