A member of the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said earlier the government needs to enforce more testing, social distancing, and mask wearing to “get things under control soon enough to stop a real meltdown in the middle of the winter.”
Prof Adam Finn also told Sky News that vaccines, by themselves, are “not enough at the present time to keep the spread of the virus under control”, pouring cold water on Boris Johnson’s claim Covid jabs will “steer Britain through the winter”.
“We do need to see people continuing to make efforts to avoid contact ... just getting more people vaccinated could run the risk of making things worse rather than better,” Prof Finn added.
It comes after government figures on Saturday showed a further 39,962 cases of Covid were recorded in the UK in the last 24-hour period. Seventy-two people died in the same time.
Boris Johnson continues to resist pleas for tighter restrictions despite health secretary Sajid Javid saying new Covid cases could reach 100,000 a day.
