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Lockdown end should be delayed as “we’re still in the middle of a raging pandemic”

4 June 2021

We should not go ahead with easing restrictions on 21 June, as there’s now evidence “that you are 2.7 times more likely to end up in hospital with the Delta variant compared to the Kent, or Alpha, variant,” argues Professor Anthony Costello (UCL Institute for Global Health).

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