Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeScientists are queueing up to plead with Boris Johnson to delay the planned end of lockdown on June 21. Dr Lisa Spencer, honorary secretary of the British Thoracic Society, warned variant hotspots are like “volcanoes” that “could explode and send a massive gas plume across much more of the UK”. Advisor to the government Prof Ravi Gupta, a member of SAGE subgroup NERVTAG, today declared the easing should be delayed for “probably a month”. Prof Gupta - who yesterday warned Britain may already be in a third wave - told Sky News: “My personal opinion is I think it’s a bit early. "It then gives us another four weeks' worth of data to collect about how the virus is growing in the population."

Source: Daily Mirror June 01, 2021 09:14 UTC