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Professor Mark Harris, who is originally from Jersey and now based at the University of Leeds, says the guidance could effectively see people gathering indoors in groups of ten on three consecutive days, adding “the virus will be celebrating” at that prospect.
On Thursday the government advised there would be new rules from 23 December to 5 January which would see no limit on how many times people can gather as a group of up to five people, but that gatherings of six to ten people would only be allowed on three occasions in that period, with no more than one happening per day.