England will ‘probably’ be in a third national lockdown by the end of January, a SAGE expert has predicted. Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of SAGE subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), sounded the grim warning today as 78% of England woke up in Tier 4.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Cases are rising in a really concerning way. “So I suspect that unfortunately we will see a ramping-up even further of restrictions, probably more of the country being in Tier 4 or ultimately probably a national lockdown before we get to the end of January.” Tier 4 has the same rules as the November national lockdown, and critics say the nation is already almost in a lockdown in all but name.
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