UK Covid death toll

[Derek Hardballs]

Speaking to Sky News, Prof Reicher, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which feeds into SAGE, said: "The vaccine is wonderful. The vaccine confers a huge advantage and everyone should get vaccinated but on its own it's not quite enough, we need other protections.
"If we don't have those other protections now, as happened last year if we wait and allow things to run out of control, we will need later restrictions.
"It's remarkable we are in a situation where the government's own public health leaders are giving advice which is at odds with what the government is actually doing.
"We need to act now. If we don't protect people now with light measures we will have to restrict them later with heavier measures.
"I get a sense we are rather dilly-dallying into lockdown."

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