Coronavirus map LIVE: Historian outlines TERRIFYING fate as fears grow for MULTIPLE waves

8.08am update: 100,000 test still an aim 

Environment Secretary George Eustice has said the aim of the Government is to meet the 100,000 tests a day target by the end of tomorrow. 

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Eustice said: “Aim to get 100,000 tests being done but I think the critical thing here is anybody there who needs a test that can’t get one which is why capacity also matters.

“That’s why the first thing is to build the capacity and the second thing is to make sure that everybody knows they can get access to that test and we’re now doing both of those things.”

8.06am update: Boris Johnson to miss PMQs 

The Prime Minister will not attend PMQs today. 

Dominic Raab is expected to deputise for the Prime Minister who is not well enough to attend. 

7.35am update: Public obedience will begin to “wane”

Historian, Nancy K Bristow compared the current COVID-19 pandemic with the 1918 Spanish influenza outbreak. 

Much like the 1918 flu, she said people were willing to follow the rules during the initial stages of the outbreak. 

However, when second and third waves begin to hit, she warned public obedience for the reules may wane. 

She told Lapham’s Quarterly: “It’s only later, when another wave arrives, that people start to think, ‘If it worked, why is this back? So what’s the point?’

“When you’re in the midst it’s very hard to see the benefits of social distancing because you can’t make the comparison with what would happen if you weren’t doing those things.

“So in 1918 initially there’s a great deal of support for what public health people ask for; then it wanes as the third wave comes in, it wanes as business owners become frustrated with the loss of income.”