Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox There is less than a 50 per cent chance that the June 21 plan for lifting all legal limits on social contact will be delayed, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has said.
Professor Graham Medley, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, offered a degree of optimism about the summer though he stressed the Indian variant meant things were still uncertain.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng insisted that Boris Johnson's June 21 date for the ending of coronavirus restrictions in England was likely to be met.
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