Boris Johnson has said a second wave of coronavirus is coming to the UK.
The Prime Minister said it was 'inevitable' that Covid-19 would hit the country again.
He made the comments during an interview with reporters on Friday evening during a visit to the Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre construction site near Oxford.
It comes as the country has seen a big increase in infections rates 'over the last few days'.
He told broadcasters: “Obviously, we’re looking very carefully at the spread of the pandemic as it evolves over the last few days and there’s no question, as I’ve said for several weeks now, that we could expect (and) are now seeing a second wave coming in.
“We are seeing it in France, in Spain, across Europe – it has been absolutely, I’m afraid, inevitable we were going to see it in this country.”
On Friday, the UK recorded a further 4,300 coronavirus cases and 27 deaths in last 24 hours.
And another 27 people who tested positive for the virus lost their lives - bringing the UK death toll to 41,732.
Department of Health data showed that a total of 385,936 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK since the start of the pandemic.
Earlier today, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said coronavirus hospital admissions continued to rise.
He said it was vital that people followed social distancing rules.
"It is deadly serious," he told Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday (September 18).
"The results of not doing so will be that this goes more out of control and we have to take more stringent measures which have a bigger economic impact and also that we have more people catching the virus, more people going to hospital and, I fear, more people will die."
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