Prof Neil Ferguson says country should ‘pause at the headlong rush to get everybody back’
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One of UK’s top disease experts has suggested the government should “maybe pause at the headlong rush to get everybody back into offices” in England, as a minister admitted there was not yet a certified on-the-spot Covid test available.
Prof Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist from the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, warned there had been “uptick” in Covid-related hospital admissions in the UK in recent days, with infections increasing across all areas and geographies.
