Bars and restaurants should stay shut until May, a Government scientific advisor has warned. Dr Marc Baguelin, Imperial College London, who sits on the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), a sub-group of Sage, said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a "bump" in Covid-19 cases.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he said: "We looked at the partial reopening and the increase in the R number, it will generate an increase in the R number, the extent of which we don't know really. "Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad. "So you have a lot of pressure on hospital, you will have another wave of
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