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‘DANGEROUS’ TO RETURN TO LIFE AS NORMAL ON JULY 19, EXPERT WARNS
High levels of Covid-19 vaccination rates could “challenge the virus” to mutate into variants against which the jab is less effective, a Government advisor has warned, amid fears it “would be dangerous” to return to life as normal on July 19.
Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M) Government advisory panel told Times Radio that “there is a risk” with the planned July 19 reopening, when the Government is expected to lift the vast majority of remaining coronavirus restrictions.
It comes at a time when cases are rising, and Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chairwoman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said deaths were beginning to rise again too.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We’ve only just heard in this bulletin about the rising numbers of cases, the rising numbers of people requiring hospital treatment, in intensive care and sadly deaths are starting to rise again, too.”
“There seems to be a misapprehension that life will return to normal from then (July 19), and that we can throw away all the precautions, and frankly, that would be dangerous.”
Source: thesun
