Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to the nation this afternoon on the anniversary of the first coronavirus lockdown.
On the 'day of reflection ' he said that 'at the right moment' a permanent memorial to those who have died from covid-19 will be built.
Boris Johnson also spoke of his worries of a third wave 'washing onto our shores' from Europe.
Addressing the nation Boris Johnson said: "If I look at problems that we face at the moment, in addition to continuing health care threat, we must be realistic there is another wave building in the European continent.
He added: "We will see it wash onto our shores I see no doubt. The extent to wish it affects us, will depends on the strengths of the fortification we have now built against it."
A member of the public asked how he is planning to stop the spread of coronavirus from Europe to the UK.
The Prime Minister said we must be 'very wary' of the potential third wave.
He told the Downing Street briefing: "On the European continent we are seeing distinct signs of a third wave and they're taking steps to abate that, to deal with that.
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"And we in the UK have very tough measures at our borders already."
He added: "As for your point about lorry drivers (being tested) and hotel quarantine for absolutely everybody, we keep - I want to be clear with the public - we keep all these measures under review.
"In so far as it's necessary to take extra measures to protect this country against new variants, variants of concern, of course we're going to do that."
When asked about if he would have done anything differently, the Prime Minister said the 'biggest false assumption' government made during the pandemic was over asymptomatic transmission.
Boris Johnson said: "In retrospect there are probably many things that we wish that we'd known and many things that we wish we'd done differently at the time, in retrospect, because we were fighting a novel disease under very different circumstances than any previous government had imagined.
"The single biggest false assumption that we made was about the potential for asymptomatic transmission and that did govern a lot of policy in the early days, or that misunderstanding about the reality of asymptomatic transmission certainly led to real problems that we then had to work very, very hard to make up ground."
