Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The government should be “cautious” about fully lifting lockdown measures in England due to the rise in cases of the Delta variant which could lead to hospitals being overwhelmed, experts have warned.
Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the Nervtag advisory group, said that it was a “disappointing setback” that the Delta variant first identified in India seemed even more successful than the previous strains.
He told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme on Saturday: “This Delta variant seems to be about 60 per cent more transmissible than that (the Alpha variant). “So it really has gone up another gear and that means that we really have to double down and not
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