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The Academy of Royal Colleges has warned that things in England “will get worse before they get better” and South Korea has posted its highest-ever number of daily Covid infections for the third consecutive day.
Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “There seems to be a misapprehension that life will return to normal from then [July 19], and that we can throw away all the precautions, and frankly, that would be dangerous.”
