Coronavirus 'can be eradicated from UK by Christmas', scientist claims
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mirror.co.ukCoronavirus could be eradicated from the UK by Christmas, says one of the country's top microbiologists. Professor Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, said if mass testing and contact tracing was ramped up Britain may be clear of Covid-19 by the end of the year.
But the academic was scathing about government efforts so far to tackle the virus. "I would give the UK and Scottish governments five out of ten over the way they have handled this.
This big mistake was on March 12 when they decided the policy was to just flatten the curve and give up mass testing and contact tracing," he said. "The policy was taken, it seems to me, because of a lack of testing capacity and it was wrong.
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