Winter could come early” if viruses are allowed to spread in the UK, a leading professor has said.
“I’m not sure about this thing about let’s get the epidemic over with before winter – I don’t buy it,” he told Times Radio.
“If you’re doing little to stop it and the spread of other respiratory viruses, cases of which have been very low because we’ve been in lockdown, then our winter could come early, if you like. Winter is a long way off and we might have new treatments by then. And I’d rather keep incidents as low as we can for as long as we can.”
It comes as the US State Department and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both issued on Monday their highest warnings against travel to the United Kingdom because of a rising number of Covid cases.
Each raised the UK to Level Four, telling Americans they should avoid travel there. In May, the US government had lowered the UK to a Level 3 advisory rating.
