A LEADING Government scientific adviser has today repeated calls to delay the June 21 lifting of restrictions by a month. Professor Ravi Gupta, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Th…
Professor Ravi Gupta today called for a delay to the lifting of restrictions on June 21Prof Gupta said it should be made clear to the public that it would be a temporary measure based on the emergence of the Indian variantHe said the increased socialisation which has followed last month’s phase of restriction lifting could be expected to lead to “quite a lot” of hospital admissions.
“Because we didn’t plan for the 617.2 variant when the initial roadmap was made, and actually things have gone really well except for the fact that we have this new variant to complicate things. He added: "If we're fully unlocked on the 21st of June, we have a situation where over the next few weeks there will be a lot of mixing, there will be gatherings, because people have been waiting to do these things for a long time.
He warned that a delay is better than having to shut down again, adding that the Indian variant is “more infectious”. "I'm no business person, and shouldn't really be commenting on business, but it seems to me that if we can progressively get back to a place where we're living normally that would be the better thing."
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