Britain could face a “large wave of infection” with hospital admissions exceeding 1,000 a day when schools return next month and people go back to their offices, a government scientific adviser has warned. From today the government has ended the requirement for fully vaccinated people to isolate if they are pinged as a coronavirus contact. They are instead advised to get a PCR test, but they are under no legal obligation to do so. SponsoredProfessor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London said the current level of infections, which yesterday stood at 26,750, was “sobering”. That’s a slightly sobering situation to be in coming into September because our contact rates are half of normal levels,” he

Source: The Times August 16, 2021 11:02 UTC