Neil Ferguson epidemiologist
Government adviser Neil Ferguson said early release from restrictions put on millions of people “not looking optimistic”.
Professor Neil Ferguson said decisions on whether to loosen household mixing rules over the festive period would be a “political judgment”.
Professor Neil Ferguson, who was involved in the modelling that initiated the UK's first lockdown, says new measures have to be considered in a "very different context".
New cases of the infection are doubling every week.
Ferguson – once a key adviser on the UK's coronavirus response – criticised the US president's reaction to Covid-19.