Charley B
My partner works for the NHS in Hampshire and has been told that the two super hospitals in the area in Portsmouth and Southampton are rapidly filling-up with COVID patients and it is likely to reach crisis point in the next few days - Portsmouth is in Tier 4, but Southampton is only Tier 2. The current situation is certainly not being exaggerated, if anything it is being underplayed at the moment and all sensible nations will suspend travel to and from the UK until more is known about the new strain of the virus.