Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda Government ministers are being urged to push back the June 21 roadmap date after scientific advisers said that the UK is already in the grip of an early third wave.
Professor Ravi Gupta, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), claims the UK’s vaccination programme is offering a “false sense of security” amid a mounting third wave of infections.
The University of Cambridge academic said there had been an “exponential growth” in the number of cases, fuelled by the more transmissible Indian variant, but that the “explosive” impact it could have was currently being masked by the high vaccination rate.
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