Britain is unlikely to lift its stringent lockdown rules until the end of May, a leading government adviser has said, warning that the spread of coronavirus must first slow and intense testing be introduced.
A second senior government adviser, the chief pandemic modeler Graham Medley, said he feared Britain had painted itself into a corner, with no clear exit from a strategy that would damage the economic and mental well-being of many people.
“If we carry on with lockdown it buys us more time, we can get more thought put into it, but it doesn’t resolve anything — it’s a placeholder,” Medley told the Times newspaper.
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