Last night the Prime Minister bowed to internal party pressure and defied scientists who had warned that delaying Covid restrictions until after the holidays “would almost certainly be too late to have a material impact on the epidemic”. A 63 percent weekly rise in infections and 90,000 daily cases was “not enough evidence” to justify tougher measures before Christmas, ministers decided.
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