The UK’s vaccination success is giving Britons a “false sense of security” in the face of an escalating new “wave” of infections, a leading scientist has warned. Professor Ravi Gupta of the University of Cambridge, who is a member of the government’s Nervtag advisory group, called on Boris Johnson to delay the June 21 reopening by “a few weeks” amid intensifying fears about rising coronavirus case numbers. Sponsored“There’s been exponential growth in the number of new cases and at least three quarters of them are the new variant,” Gupta told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “Of course the numbers of cases are still relatively low at the moment but all waves start with low numbers of cases, and that rumble in the background, and then

Source: The Times May 31, 2021 09:20 UTC