The man dubbed ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London epidemiologist who resigned his role as a Government adviser after breaking rules to see his married lover is now predicting that tier 4 rules could ‘possibly’ have to stay until the spring.
Millions of Briton’s are now living under Tier Four, and according to Professor Ferguson who’s grim modelling is widely given as the reason for the spring 2020 lockdown, has said restrictions will need to be in place until at least Easter.
Ferguson has also said that Britain’s COVID situation was ‘not looking optimistic right now’. Professor Ferguson has said in an interview: ‘The Government gets criticised for changing policy all the time. This virus is unpredictable, how people behave is unpredictable, so we will track the epidemic as we always have done. Policy will be formed on the basis of that. The tiers are reviewed every two weeks and will continue to be reviewed. But I certainly agree it’s not looking optimistic right now’.
Professor Ferguson also went on to say: ‘Undoubtedly increased transmissibility limits our options for manoeuvre even more and there is a hint in the data that this variant may infect children slightly more effectively than the previous variants, though it’s very difficult to prove causality. I think what we’ll see in the next two weeks, though, is that while schools are closed is, probably, all the variants of the virus in circulation at the moment declining but we’ll be tracking very carefully whether we can see differences in that rate of decline and really it’s the data that’s being put together now and, unfortunately, over the Christmas break which is going to inform policy measures in January. It’s just too early to tell’.
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