Fourth lockdown 'unlikely' but restrictions could return if variants resist vaccine
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mirror.co.ukAnother crippling lockdown is 'unlikely' but restrictions could return if new Covid variants prove resistant to vaccines, a leading scientist has said.
The expert whose modelling led to the first nationwide lockdown last year, Professor Neil Ferguson, was reported to have said the UK is 'on a steady course' out of the pandemic.
He went on to warn there could be a 'roll back' of some of the newly re-introduced freedoms. He said this would be because of new variants that could prove resistant to vaccines.
Prof Ferguson, who sits on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said data on falling Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths was encouraging.
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