A senior government science advisor has resigned after breaking lockdown social distancing rules to meet his lover, it has been reported.
It was Professor Neil Ferguson's advice that prompted Boris Johnson to put Britain in lockdown. He sat on the government's SAGE committee, which provides advice to ministers on their response to the pandemic.
He also sat on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). The Government Office for Science confirmed he had 'stepped back' from both bodies.
Professor Ferguson, nicknamed "Professor Lockdown" is an infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London, said he believed he was immune to the virus, after self isolating with symptoms in March.
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