UK lockdown - day eighty-one

Martin Woods (martin@amlwoods.com) is a former Metropolitan Police Officer and latterly the Head of Financial Crime at Thomson Reuters.

The infection numbers are falling, as is the economy, so once again there are calls to reduce social distancing from two metres to one. In the US the virus trajectory is still upward in some states, prompting renewed fears of a second wave; share prices plunged accordingly.