Good Morning Britain's Dr Amir Khan has addressed fears the government will not meet their target of lifting social distancing restrictions on June 21.
With cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus increasing across the UK, there's concern over whether the vaccine will be enough to curb transmission and hospitalisations.
With it being just under a month until the date nightclubs and other venues are said to be allowed to open, there's now a worry this will not happen and that plans to lift restrictions will have to be pushed back.
Dr Amir told GMB that the issue of the government not red listing India soon enough, like other countries with smaller transmission rates, needed to be addressed and that answers were needed.
Ben addressed GMB viewers' comments, with many of them sharing anger over the possibility of June 21 plans changing because of the failure to stop flights and ban travel at the right time.
He read out: "There's frustration as you can imagine, in the majority of comments we’ve had this morning.
"We've been building towards this, everyone has been responsible, why should we have to stop now when we're doing everything we possibly can, cos the government let these flights come in, if that’s how it's all been transpired."
Amir replied: "Well that’s the issue because when other countries with lower infection rates were put on a red list, India was not.
"We knew flights were coming in, it got seeded in the country, and now community transmission is the big way it's being spread.
"But it came in through those flights, and really that’s a question we need to ask the government."
Doctor Amir also called out Health Secretary Matt Hancock's previous claims of there being a protective ring around care homes during the pandemic, after testing failures led to the virus spreading quickly in many of them.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings recently claimed Hancock lied about testing residents before they returned to care homes.
Now, Amir who was on the front line and treating care home residents has said mistakes need to be admitted to, as he appeared to call out claims of a "ring fence" around care homes.
He said: "I can remember it very clearly it was only a year ago. I was seeing patients in care homes who were being discharged from hospital without being tested.
"And that is not necessarily the fault of the hospitals because they didn't have the tests to test them, they were only being asked to test people who were being admitted to hospital rather than being discharged, and we saw it spread through the care homes, certainly care homes I was looking after.
"I get quite emotional when I think about it actually because I've been working in the same practice for over 10 years. I know my care home patients really well, and they were dying from this virus.
"Relatives weren’t able come in and see them, I was having conversations on the phone with family members, normally I do that face-to-face, it was incredibly difficult.
"Treatment options were limited, we weren’t able to send them back to hospital either so it was really tough.
"To say there was a ring fence around care homes certainly wasn’t my experience at the time, and I think if we want to learn from this, this isn’t gonna be the last pandemic we're gonna have, and we have to admit mistakes were made so we can learn from mistakes and make sure it doesn't happen again.
"I think the sticking point for me and a lot of people is they're not admitting mistakes were made and that is a real problem."
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
