Date for lifting remaining curbs may be moved amid warnings of third wave driven by India variant

The 21 June target for scrapping England’s remaining coronavirus restrictions appears increasingly under threat, as a senior government adviser said the country was in the early stages of a third wave.

Prof Ravi Gupta, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 there had been “exponential growth” in new cases, with the variant first detected in India accounting for three-quarters.

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