UK's national lockdown needs to be stricter 'in order to work,' warns scientist
dailystar.co.ukCovid cases in the same way March restrictions did, scientists have said. Boris Johnson put the entire country under strict lockdown measures earlier this week, forcing the closure of shops, pubs and leisure businesses in a bid to stop the spread of Covid.Restrictions have been likened to the lockdown in March, but Professor Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours, said measures need to be stricter in order to bring down the number of cases.He said the infectious new variant is around 50% more transmissible than in March so we need a "stricter" lockdown to manage it.Speaking to BBBC News, Mr West said: "Because we have the more infectious variant, which is somewhere around 50% more infectious than.
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