Lifting lockdown in April would lead to another ‘enormous wave’ of infections
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Lifting lockdown too early this spring would lead to another “enormous wave" of coronavirus infections, a member of the government’s advisory committee on vaccines has warned. He said: “You could argue when you've immunised all the people at high risk or very large number of them that's the end of the problem. So if we all of a sudden in April sort of said ‘right, this is over’ and went back to normal we would then have another enormous wave of the infection and a lot of people would end up being sick and it would be very disruptive.” He said the key was to relax measures “quite carefully and slowly” to avoid another lockdown. But he added: “It's probably not too early to contemplate some kind of shift towards normal and what I'm hoping we'll see is that happens bit by bit, in a cautious way, so that we don't end up having to lock back down again.” Meanwhile, it has emerged that the controversial tiers system could be scrapped before England next comes out of lockdown.
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