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(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Ending England’s lockdown next month and returning to three-tiered localised restrictions will see coronavirus infections rise again, the Government’s scientific advisors have warned.
Christmas hopes continue to hang in the balance, with the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) warning that Covid-19 infection rates will need to stay below one for “some time” before social distancing rules can be lifted.
A Sage document, dated November 4, said: “If England returns to the same application of the tiering system in place before November 5, then transmission will return to the same rate of increase as today.”
This morning, member Professor Susan Michie stressed that the next two weeks will be “absolutely critical” in determining whether the national shutdown should finish as planned on December 2.
