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A leading north-east microbiologist has called into question the reason behind the cancellation of eased coronavirus restrictions during the festive period.
Professor Hugh Pennington says the scrapping of the four nations-agreed five-day Christmas bubble is a necessary move, but suggests claims the new variant is pushing the virus out of control to be questionable.
The Aberdeen University professor said: “The big issue with the variant is that it’s no nastier than the first one that came in March.