Home quarantine won’t stop Covid variants coming to Britain, says top scientist
Home quarantine will not stop Covid-19 variants coming into Britain because it is not working as originally hoped, a leading scientist said today.
Home quarantine will not stop Covid-19 variants coming into Britain because it is not working as originally hoped, a leading scientist said today.
The coronavirus will no longer be circulating in Britain by midsummer, according to the government’s departing vaccine taskforce chief, Clive Dix.
No one should panic, but we need to brace ourselves for a difficult week or two as regards the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Britain is halfway towards its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, it has emerged as the Prime Minister prepares to mount pressure on other nations to commit to the same target.
A hunt is under way for one of the first people in the UK believed to have contracted a Brazilian “variant of concern”.
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