NHS officials in Sussex say they are planning for a second wave of Covid-19 cases which could be two and a half times bigger than the first wave.

Board papers for the county’s Clinical Commissioning Group say there is “no agreement around the timing of a second peak.”

 A second wave of between two and two and a half times the size of the first wave was a “reasonable worst case scenario“, the papers suggest.

An open letter by health leaders in the British Medical Journal has called for an urgent review to determine whether the UK is prepared for the “real risk” of a second wave.